Giro winner Elisa Longo Borghini abandons Tour de France Femmes after stomach infection
The UAE Team ADQ rider is the fourth to drop out of the race and follows Movistar's Marlen Reusser in having to stop due to stomach issues.
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Both riders went toe to toe earlier this month in the Italian Grand Tour, the Giro. Longo Borghini eventually took the overall win, after Reusser had held the leader's maglia rosa — pink jersey — for four stages.
It was the UAE team rider's second Giro win in as many years as she overtook the Swiss rider in the penultimate stage to eventually win by 18 seconds.
Longo Borghini began experiencing symptoms since the opening stage and 'made every effort to push through' despite feeling extremely weak, the team said.
'However, her condition has worsened in the last hours and, in agreement with the team's medical staff, the difficult decision has been made for her to withdraw from the race,' a team statement read.
'After my victory at the Giro d'Italia Women, I was feeling really good and arrived at the Tour determined to achieve something important here as well,' Longo Borghini added.
'Unfortunately, I suddenly began experiencing symptoms of this virus, which has drained my energy more and more each day. I'm truly devastated and disappointed to have to abandon the Tour de France Femmes prematurely once again, but right now this was the best decision to make.'
The Tour de France Femmes began on Saturday, with Team Visma Lease-A-Bike's Marianne Vos and Liv AlUla Jayco's Mavi Garcia winning the first two hilly stages. Garcia, 41, held off a fast-approaching group of general classification favourites in the final kilometre to claim her biggest career win as the oldest rider in the peloton.
Monday's stage is the first flat stage of the nine-day race, favouring the pure sprinters such as Vos and SD Worx-Protime's Lorena Wiebes.
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