Warren Barguil maintains that he can be at 100 per cent for the Ardennes Classics despite fracturing his scaphoid when a motorist crashed head-on into a group of Giant-Alpecin riders during the team’s training camp in Calpe last weekend.
The Frenchman was one of six Giant-Alpecin riders injured in the crash, along with John Degenkolb, Fredrik Ludvigsson, Ramon Sinkeldam, Max Walscheid and Chad Haga. At a press conference at his uncle’s bike shop in Hennebont, in Brittany on Wednesday morning, Barguil talked reporters through the events of last Saturday.
“We were riding back to our hotel. I was taking a turn on the front, and at that moment, a car 300 metres up the road was taking a corner. I thought it was going too fast since it was in the left hand lane,” Barguil said, according to Ouest France. “It wasn’t that it was going too fast, but it was driving regularly and stayed in the left-hand lane.
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“The car didn’t stop, it kept going straight on. She [the driver] braked at the point of the first impact. I was riding at 47kph, she was going at 50kph… There was no verge at the roadside, just rocks. I swung as far to the right as I could before the collision.”
On Monday police in Alicante announced they had charged the driver, a 73-year-old British woman, with reckless driving. She was reportedly driving a British, right-hand drive car.
Barguil explained the aftermath of the crash, with a total of six riders sustaining injuries.
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