Gaudu managed to fall and take Bardet down with him. 🇫🇷 🍷 🇫🇷 🍷 🇫🇷
Reminder.
This year, Gaudu fell successively:
on the Tour of Oman (nothing serious) 11 or 12 Feb;
while training 🐈 (which forced him to cancel the small French mountain races he should have ridden (Var, Alpes-Maritimes 21-23 Feb) and then forbid him to replace them with the following similar small French races (Drôme, Ardèche 1-2 Mar));
twice on Strade Bianche (abandon) 8 Mar;
3 days later, on the 1st stage of Tirreno–Adriatico (abandon and hand surgery); 11 Mar : all those falls happened within 1 month!
he finally restarted 7 or 8 weeks later on the Tour of Romandie mostly as a tourist, only race without a fall;
now he’s fallen again on his next race, the Tour of Italy (hand injury for the umpteenth time, stitches (?), consequences unknown so far) 16 May.
Reminder.
This year, Gaudu fell successively: