Remco Evenepoel crashed at the end of stage three of the Volta a Catalunya due to an unmarked pothole, according to the Belgian.
The Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe rider was ahead of the peloton with Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) on Wednesday, when he fell on the approach to a roundabout.
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“I wanted to move to the drops and at that moment there was a hole in the road that I didn’t see, and it wasn’t marked. Then I lost my handlebars,” Evenepoel told Sporza later on Wednesday.
“What others do tactically is not my concern,” Evenepoel said. “That’s their problem. It was clear who wanted to ride for the win and who didn’t.”
