Fabian Cancellera has been forced to abandon the 99th Giro D'Italia.
The 35 year old Swiss rider has been suffering with stomach flu for a couple of weeks and said: "A few days have gone now “I’m getting better, but I’m definitely not how I want to be. The first few days of the Giro were hard and with my stomach flu. I was definitely sick.
It was a tough one, a hard one, and not maybe the nicest one for my style of racing,” Cancellara said about the stage time trial in which he finished fourth.
“In the end, I paid a bit for trying to gain on the rider I saw in front of me. I went a bit over the edge and then I paid the price, but in the end, I could manage in the downhill to recover a bit. That’s how it is. I knew it was my last [stage], so I did it all-in.”
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