Vuelta. ‘Unacceptable’ – Roglic accuses Wright of bringing him down.

Primoz Roglic, compelled to retire within the Tour of Spain after a heavy fall on Tuesday within the dash of the sixteenth stage, is offended. The Slovenian on Friday accused one other runner, Fred Wright, of dropping him in an “unacceptable” means.

“The circumstances of this fall are unacceptable. It was not brought on by dangerous street situations or poor safety, however by the habits of a rider. I’ve no eyes within the again, in any other case I’d have left the place. Wright got here from behind and snatched the handlebars from my palms with out my having the ability to react”, denounced Roglic on the web site of his Jumbo-Visma workforce.

Roglic, who was aiming for a fourth victory in a row on the Vuelta, fell violently on Tuesday lower than 100 meters from the end of the sixteenth stage, as he tried to make up time from the chief, the Belgian Remco Evenepoel (Fast Step ). Bleeding, the pores and skin torn in a number of locations, he sat for a very long time, haggard. Even when he doesn’t endure from any fracture, he didn’t take the beginning of the subsequent stage the subsequent day.

The pictures don’t clearly present what occurred through the dash. Fourth within the stage, the Englishman Fred Wright, who was neck and neck with Roglic on the time of the autumn, assured after the race that he had not understood what had occurred and that there was in any case “nothing deliberate” on his half.

“It was not okay,” mentioned Roglic. “These items should not occur. Individuals transfer on as if nothing had occurred. However not me. I do not need it to proceed like this in our sport and I need it to be clear”, added the Olympic time trial champion who feels “barely higher”, however doesn’t but know if he’ll be capable to resort in race this yr. “I can stroll somewhat, I am pleased with it for now,” he mentioned.

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