Nairo Quintana confesses: for this reason the victory of stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia was spoiled

Nairo arrived at Italy spin With little preparation, but with the goal of winning a stage, this Thursday he was the protagonist of a long escape with Jonathan Narváez, Matteo Trentin, Filippo Ganna, Rubén Fernández, Juan Pedro López, Attila Valter and several other runners.

The victory seemed close, but he ran out of strength in his legs, lost ground and reached the finish line, more than 5 minutes behind the winner of the day, Julian Alaphilippe and with Tadej Pogacar and his compatriot Daniel Martinez.

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At the end of the fraction, nairo He confessed why he stopped fighting for the victory of stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia and did not attack anymore in a fraction with great chances of raising his arms at the finish line.

​​”It went very quickly, a big escape, with a lot of force, with many participants. We were overwhelmed, an important group left us“, the Colombian began by saying in his talk with DSports.

“We couldn’t push either because there were two runners ahead who could gain time to be ahead of Einer and we couldn’t pass, help, in the end I waited for him and passed the last hill to take care of him in the final part,” said the man born in Cómbita. Boyacá.

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Finally, he analyzed the performance of his rival Alaphilippe, who celebrated the victory of stage 12 in this Giro: ​“It was very hard, he did very well, he was very strong. He has been searching for it, searching for it and it has been given to him.”