Tokyo Olympic champion Carapaz to miss Tour de France
Tokyo 2020 Olympic road race champion Richard Carapaz will miss the 2025 Tour de France after developing a gastrointestinal infection while training at home in Ecuador, his EF Pro Cycling team said in a statement.
Earlier this month, Carapaz was third in the Giro d'Italia and he's also the reigning Tour mountain classification champion.
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"We're all gutted for Richard. He came out of the Giro with amazing form and was setting career-high power numbers in training. He sacrificed a lot to get to that level, so the timing really couldn't be worse," Jonathan Vaughters, EF Pro Cycling founder and CEO said.
The Tour starts on July 5 in Lille and ends on July 27 in Paris.
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