Caleb Ewan (Orica-GreenEdge) inadvertently found himself drawn into the polemic surrounding Vincenzo Nibali’s exclusion from the Vuelta a España on Sunday evening, but the Australian has insisted that he is the victim of a case of mistaken identity.
Nibali was expelled from the Vuelta when the helicopter camera filmed him being towed by Astana directeur sportif Alexandre Shefer as he chased back on after coming down in a large crash in the peloton with 30 kilometres left in stage two.
Shortly after the stage and before the commissaires had announced their decision to expel Nibali from the race, the Sicilian had identified Ewan as the culprit, a claim he repeated in an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport at his team hotel in Estepona.
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“The crash was Caleb Ewan’s fault,” Nibali said. “He made a crazy, bad move. Go and watch that clip too, and you’ll understand why riders got injured. But he’ll stay in the race. I was looking for him while I was waiting for my replacement bike, but fortunately for him he had already set off again. I had something to say to him.”
However Ewan denied that he had caused the crash when speaking to reporters ahead of stage three in Mijas on Monday, pointing out that he had been at the rear of the peloton at the time and had seen riders crash ahead of him.
“I was at the back of the bunch. All I saw were the riders crashing in front of me and I don’t know what happened at the front or who it was who caused the crash,” Ewan said.
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