Cycling: Leopard withdraws from Giro
Giro teams believe Leopard Trek made the right decision to quit the tour.
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Teams competing in the Giro D’Italia believe Leopard Trek made the right decision to quit the tour following the death of their Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt following a crash on Monday.
“It’s only logical, it would have been a nightmare for them to continue,” said Sky team director Sean Yates. “When something like that happens, it’s not at all surprising that a team leaves. The rest of us will just keep plugging away.”
Yates’ Sky squad made the same decision to pull out of last year’s Tour of Spain after team massage therapist Txema Gonzalez died in the first week of the race after contracting a bacterial infection.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 12th, 2011.
Teams competing in the Giro D’Italia believe Leopard Trek made the right decision to quit the tour following the death of their Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt following a crash on Monday.
“It’s only logical, it would have been a nightmare for them to continue,” said Sky team director Sean Yates. “When something like that happens, it’s not at all surprising that a team leaves. The rest of us will just keep plugging away.”
Yates’ Sky squad made the same decision to pull out of last year’s Tour of Spain after team massage therapist Txema Gonzalez died in the first week of the race after contracting a bacterial infection.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 12th, 2011.