Wiggins om dagens etappe
- Ingen ønsker at slikt (de etter hvert så beryktede stiftene) skal få en innvirkning på rittet, sier Wiggins.
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Pressemelding fra Team Sky
Bradley Wiggins completed a British-best seventh day in the yellow jersey to maintain his overall lead at the Tour de France as Luis León Sánchez (Rabobank) won an incident-packed 14th stage that was overshadowed by tacks being thrown on the road.
Sánchez attacked with 10 kilometres remaining to shake off what remained of an escape group which had already been allowed to build up a substantial lead, crossing the line 47 seconds ahead of Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale), Sandy Casar (FDJ-Big Mat), Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing) and Gorka Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi).
Wiggins had required a bike change after race commissaires reported that tacks in the road had caused around 30 punctures in total in the space of 4km. But thankfully the damage was limited, and Wiggins and Froome both rolled over the line 18 minutes and 15 seconds after Sánchez, alongside all the other main GC contenders.
Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky rider:
"No one wants to see something like that have an impact on the race. As a group the thing to do was to wait, the stage win was over. The climb was over. There was nothing left to contest really.
"If you can't gain times on the climbs, then you don't do it when someone's punctured - not even when it's an ordinary puncture. The climb was so narrow that the team cars were a long way back and waiting seemed the honourable thing to do."
Sean Yates, Team Sky Sports Director:
"We saw it as a bit of an unwritten rule not to push on in that situation.
"There wasn't a great deal to be gained by it and Bradley asserted his authority a bit with the other teams to keep everything together."
Pressemelding fra Team Sky
Bradley Wiggins completed a British-best seventh day in the yellow jersey to maintain his overall lead at the Tour de France as Luis León Sánchez (Rabobank) won an incident-packed 14th stage that was overshadowed by tacks being thrown on the road.
Sánchez attacked with 10 kilometres remaining to shake off what remained of an escape group which had already been allowed to build up a substantial lead, crossing the line 47 seconds ahead of Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale), Sandy Casar (FDJ-Big Mat), Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing) and Gorka Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi).
Wiggins had required a bike change after race commissaires reported that tacks in the road had caused around 30 punctures in total in the space of 4km. But thankfully the damage was limited, and Wiggins and Froome both rolled over the line 18 minutes and 15 seconds after Sánchez, alongside all the other main GC contenders.
Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky rider:
"No one wants to see something like that have an impact on the race. As a group the thing to do was to wait, the stage win was over. The climb was over. There was nothing left to contest really.
"If you can't gain times on the climbs, then you don't do it when someone's punctured - not even when it's an ordinary puncture. The climb was so narrow that the team cars were a long way back and waiting seemed the honourable thing to do."
Sean Yates, Team Sky Sports Director:
"We saw it as a bit of an unwritten rule not to push on in that situation.
"There wasn't a great deal to be gained by it and Bradley asserted his authority a bit with the other teams to keep everything together."