Perico Delgado's critical of Visma for post-crash pacing: "They ask others to be gentlemen, today they forgot"

Perico Delgado, regular commentator of the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España in RTVE with Carlos de Andrés for more than 3 decades, went yesterday to the set of La Montonera to tell little stories of the eighties with Eduardo Chozas but while he was there he also launched criticism on Team Visma | Lease a Bike for their action after the crash on stage 14.

"Those of us who have been cyclists know that until you cross the finish line you don't know what can happen. It was being a calm, relaxed stage, but with rain that has turned into a crash," he began commenting on what happened.

The 1988 Tour winner believes that the Dutch team was right to continue pulling hard at the front of the race after the massive crash, but lamented that when they were the ones who were hurt, they were harshly criticizing the teams that continued to compete in the race:

"What surprised me most was Visma, which is a team that criticizes others. For me it rode well, but then it's a team that criticizes others a lot when they don't expect it, when they were the great architects of a stage that was possibly crucial for the outcome of this Giro."

Perico insisted on the idea that he always raced racing without looking back and that he likes this model, but that Visma are not consistent with what they say and what they do:

"I've seen them criticize Movistar many times, criticize other teams that you have to be gentlemen, but today they have forgotten that and have taken advantage of a lot. It is a cycling that I and Eduardo we have lived a lot, you fall and you endure that the rival takes advantage. But they have always surprised me for that, they have always been critical in their attitude when there is a fall, yesterday they could have stopped, there were many kilometers to go".