"We cyclists have to reflect, maybe we are the ones who create the danger" - Pello Bilbao reacts to scary Itzulia Basque Country crash

The fourth stage of the Itzulia Basque Country was marked by a hard crash that caused the abandonment of Jonas Vingegaard, Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel. Pello Bilbao, leader of Bahrain Victorious in the Basque race, escaped the crash.

After the stage, he spoke to the media and in a video by Laura Máñez Taberner for Le Puncheur commented the following about what happened. "Nobody wants the race to be tarnished in this way, seeing that the situation is dangerous, that the point where they fell looked bad. In the end, it looked like it was going to be a simpler Itzulia than usual, less dangerous, but we always enter very narrow roads and much more dangerous areas. This year it was especially simple in this sense and yet there are still many crashes, which I think has to make us reflect on the cyclists themselves who are perhaps the ones who create the danger."

Bilbao is clear that although there was a problem with the road, the cause of the accident in his opinion was the high speed at which the cyclists entered the curve:

"It is clear that all the leaders with all the teammates did not enter, we will have to rethink the way we compete. I knew the descent and yes, the asphalt is muddy because of some roots, even so we entered too fast in that curve, I was behind, I saw that there was danger and I was leaving a little distance. When I saw the fall I got quite a bad body because they were going at high speed."