😳 That was a tough TT at #TourdeSuisse. @tompidcock comes home fifth on the day to place sixth overall. Meanwhile @Eganbernal crosses the line in ninth, seeing him slip to fourth in the final GC.
"I had a bad day on the bike" - Egan Bernal drops off Tour de Suisse podium on final stage ITT
CyclingMonday, 17 June 2024 at 10:30
Continuing to show off his ever improving form, Egan Bernal was impressive again at the 2024 Tour de Suisse. Sadly for the Colombian however, on the final stage individual time-trial, a podium finish just slipped out of his grasp.
"It was hard. I hoped to keep the podium in this race, but this is cycling. I had a bad day on the bike," Bernal reflected in his post-race interview, giving his immediate reaction to the disappointment. "I did my best but I'm feeling a bit sad, also because of the team, because we worked really hard all week for this podium and, in the end, I just lost it by 10 seconds, or whatever it was."
In the end, it was the 2023 Tour de Suisse champion, Mattias Skjelmose who took the final spot on the podium alongside the all-conquering UAE Team Emirates duo of Adam Yates and Joao Almeida after eight stages in Switzerland.
Nevertheless, adding a 4th place at the Tour de Suisse to his performances of 3rd at the Volta a Catalunya and 3rd at Gran Camino, plus top 10s at Paris-Nice and the Tour de Romandie, Bernal is heading towards a Tour de France return with renewed confidence and optimism. "It is always a hard race, but I think in this edition, we were going really fast on the climbs. The level was super high, and for sure, we did good training for the upcoming races," concludes Bernal, a winner of the Tour de Suisse back in 2019, confirming where he will be racing next. "Hopefully the Tour de France and I think with the Tour I will be happy."
A two time Grand Tour winner, Bernal has been consistently improving and working his way back up to that level in recent seasons after a nightmare crash he suffered back in 2022, that not only threatened to end the Colombian's career, but was initially thought to have had potentially life altering possibilities.
claps 3visitors 1124
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- I think you overestimate scientific knowledge and for sure the spreading of it. There are huge numbers of people in similar situations, if there were an easy solution somebody would be making big money out of it. Nerve pain can have many complex origins or be due to complex combinations of reasons. Even if you discover a reason there is not always a solution. Migraines haven’t been solved either. I have had lower back/hip nerve pains on and off for over 30 years, no kind of doctor has ever found a way to reduce, prevent or solve the problem. It may just be that some people are born with nerves that are too short or get twisted out of position during certain movements.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- Amazing ride by her and very promising for her future. On a side note, it’s a bit worrying all these wins riders have after emotional moments in their lives, someone will come up with emotional doping at some point. Maybe give them fake news just before a big race to get hormones pumping.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- I doubt he will have the energy to do that if he continues to do leadout for Phillipsenabstractengineer22-12-2024
- I know several people who’ve tried contacting sport airbag manufacturers and none of them ever got a reply. Might be hard to organise anything with such attitudes.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- It's the BBC. Who cares outside of little Britain.leodis22-12-2024
- Crawl back under your stone.leodis22-12-2024
- Thanks Dadmobk22-12-2024
- Hard to believe with the advancment of modern medicine he can not find a cause for this.frieders321-12-2024
- You continue to platform these two cheats. With that in mind I can no longer use your site. I know my leaving means little, but, sometimes you have to take a stand. See ya!DJ21-12-2024
- Look at what Froome’s won since his last TdF, stop denying there is still more than possible one outcome to the future.Mistermaumau21-12-2024