Suffering from a finger at the finger, the Cofidis team runner will abandon after the time trial this Friday. Final point of an edition that turned in Calvary for the French sprinter.
Bryan Coquard will not see the Champs-Élysées on July 27. The Cofidis team’s pocket sprinter will throw in the towel after the time trial this Friday between Loudenvielle and Peyragudes. A last baroud honor for the 116th in the general classification before an audience who will not fail to encourage him in the slopes while he suffers from a fracture at the annular.
A fracture by catching a musette
An unhappy injury on Thursday between Auch and Hautacam at the time when he tried to catch a musette containing ice and cans by the road. Quickly intervened, the race doctor attached his fingers to him but the pain stopped launching him until the arrival. Coquard had crossed the line with 44 minutes late on Pogacar, good last in the stage, having suffered martyrdom. “It was a super hassle day. I can no longer fold it or brake from the back. I braked that from the front, it hurt me ”he said to the Hautacam top.
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A blow for the runner of the northern team who will probably keep a bitter memory of the 2025 edition. She had started badly. From the third stage, he had caused the fall and abandonment of Jasper Philipsen just before an intermediate sprint. Coquard had been doubly unhappy because in the final sprint of the day in Dunkirk, he had been the victim of an impressive fall, fortunately without serious injury. In front of the bus in his training, he had apologized to have been behind the withdrawal of one of the peloton stars, explaining that he is not a “bad guy”.
Targeted by hatred on social networks
Explanations that had not prevented a unleashing of hatred on social networks against him from bitter bettors. Invited on the set of France Télévisions, Bernard Hinault had defended him “It’s so easy, they are far away and they come to insult you … that they come opposite and we will explain from man to man”, explained the five -time winner of the Tour de France before continuing. “I would not have embarrassed to put on the pifers I would have made them eat phones. They are idiots, they have never practiced the bike and I find it a shame. ”
Philipsen doesn’t blame him
Defended by his team boss Cédric Vasseur, unhappy that a yellow card has been inflicted on his foal, Coquard had been exonerated by Jasper Philipsen, believing that his fall was linked to a “Race incident”. “I know what it is to be in the fire of criticism after a sprint. In addition, everything is amplified in the Tour de France and it is absolutely necessary to find a manager ”, had insisted the Belgian.
