FRED WRIGHT TAKES TOP TEN AT TOUR OF FLANDERS
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| Fred Wright finished 8th at the Tour of Flanders for the second consecutive year, following an extremely challenging edition of the race where Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) took the win. |
| Fred Wright went across with a group of key riders, which included Mads Pedersen (Trek Segafredo) and established a sizeable gap from the ‘big 3’ race favourites. |
| Unfortunately, the group could not hold off the likes of Pogacar and van der Poel as the eventual race winner attacked on the Kwaremont with 17km remaining to take the victory. With first and second place wrapped up, it was a sprint finish for the other top ten places, where Fred managed to place 8th:” I did the right thing being in that move, and they gave us way more time than last year, that same move. It was perfect. We got over the Koppenberg, and I thought I can try and get a result here. Cause that is the big worry, Koppenberg, being with the best guys, and you just hear it on the radio that they are 40 seconds, then 30 seconds. |
| I don’t know what more I could have done. Thanks to Kamil, who helped me into the bottom of Molenberg and that is where the move went with 100km to go. It was such a hard race so it was to be expected.” |
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| Filip Maciejuk also made an unfortunate mistake which saw him disqualified. The young Polish rider was devastated following the crash he had caused and issued an apology shortly after getting to the team bus: “I’m really sorry for my mistake and causing the crash today. I hope all those involved are in good health and safe. This should not happen and was a big error in my judgement. I had no intention of causing this. All I can do now is apologise for my mistake and learn from this in the future. Sorry again to the peloton, my teammates and the fans.” |
| Matej Mohoric also crashed with 70km to go but is still expected to line up for Paris-Roubaix. |
