• Astana’s Fuglsang retires after starting in ninth place
• Caleb Ewan sprints to stage win after frenetic finish
Geraint Thomas survived another unexpected tumble in the Tour de France, as heatwave conditions settled on the peloton on stage 16, a rolling loop around Nîmes that climaxed in a convincing sprint win for Lotto Soudal’s Caleb Ewan, also stage 11 winner in Toulouse.
Thomas’s fall came as he took a right hand bend after almost 50km of racing and appeared to be caused by him clipping the road surface with a pedal as he cornered. It was the Team Ineos rider’s third crash in this year’s Tour and his fourth fall since he crashed heavily in the Tour of Switzerland in mid-June.
Written by Jeremy Whittle in Nîmes
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/23/tour-de-france-geraint-thomas-jakob-fuglsang-stage-16-crashes-caleb-ewan under the title “Tour de France: Thomas rides on but Fuglsang out after stage 16 crashes”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
