Richard Carapaz made historical past on stage 3 of the Tour de France, turning into the primary rider from Ecuador to put on the yellow jersey within the French Grand Tour.
The EF Education-EasyPost rider keyed off of impeccable teamwork and positioning by means of the crash-marred closing kilometres on the run-in to Turin, completed within the entrance group of roughly 40 riders that fashioned a part of the bunch dash, and took the general race lead.
“Yes, it is a shock for us. We thought it might be troublesome, however right now I felt good and assume it was definitely worth the threat. I needed to play for it and needed to attempt to go for it. The crew has finished unimaginable work till the top. I’m actually blissful,” Carapaz mentioned in a post-race interview.
Overnight chief Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) and Carapaz began stage 3’s 230.8km race from Piacenza to Turin with the identical time within the GC standings.
Pogačar, Vingegaard and Evenepoel appeared to have been caught up behind the crash with two kilometres to go, and whereas they got the identical time because the stage winner Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), it was Carapaz who took the yellow jersey.
Carapaz mentioned he was proud to put on the yellow jersey as a historic second for Ecuadorian biking and that he supposed to take pleasure in his time sporting it on stage 4’s difficult 139.6km race from Pinerolo to Valloire.
“Tomorrow shall be a giant day. It shall be sophisticated. I’m going to try to give all the pieces. I’ll try to take pleasure in each second within the yellow jersey.”
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