2023-09-20 18:00:17
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 1 hour ago, Updated now
Thibaut Pinot on the 2023 Tour de France Nico Vereecken / PANORAMIC
Like his compatriot David Gaudu, Thibaut Pinot retired from the first stage of the Tour du Luxembourg. The Frenchman was competing in the last stage race of his career.
Thibaut Pinot, for the last stage race of his career, and David Gaudu, both ill and “weakened», abandoned from the first stage of the Tour du Luxembourg on Wednesday. The two Groupama-FDJ riders, who shared a room and had both just participated in the Tour of Slovakia, were “weakened», announced their team on X (formerly Twitter).
It’s heartbreaking for Thibaut Pinot who, at 33, was competing in his last stage race of his career. The Franc-Comtois must retire from sport on October 7 at the end of the Tour of Lombardy, the last great classic of the year which he won in 2018.
At the start of the stage, he told the microphone of The L’Équipe channel that it was not being donenot too many illusions» in the Grand Duchy after having been “a little sick this weekend and at the start of the week“. On August 23, Pinot, victim of a fall, had already had to abandon the 2nd stage of the Tour du Poitou-Charentes, the last race of his career in France.
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