Teja Van Garderen lider del equipo BMC, se vio obligado a abandonar el Tour de France druante la etapa 17 y estando en tercer lugar de la general….El Estadounidense cito como un malestar persistente que venia sufriendo durante los ultimo 4 días…estuve peleando fuerte con un resfriado, que comenzo en la etapa 13, dia de mucho calor….pero el dia de descanso tuve mucha fiebre….esos sintomas se incrementaron durante la etapa 17 y no pudo mas….Los doctores calificaron sus sintomas con afeccion respiratoria…
Tejay van Garderen (BMC) was forced to abandon the Tour de France during stage 17 while sitting in third place overall on Wednesday. The American cited a lingering illness, which was picked up four days earlier during stage 13, for the reason he struggled through the 161km stage from Digne-les-Bains to Pra-Loup, and eventually pulled out of the race on the Col de la Colle.
“I was fighting a little bit of a cold that I had picked up after stage 13, that day with the really intense heat, and for a while I was fine with the sniffles and not a big deal,” van Garderen said after the stage in a team audio recording. “It started getting a bit worse and on the rest day I was having some feverish symptoms and chills.