Carapaz Hangs on to Finish Giro 2019 Stage Despite Fall; Enric Mas also Forced to Retire

Winner of the Giro 2019, the leader of the EF-Education team had hung on to finish the stage after a fall about twenty kilometers from the finish in the descent of the Vivero coast, pointing to the finish with a quarter of an hour behind the winner of the day, the Briton Adam Yates.

This is the second retirement of the day after that of the Spaniard Enric Mas, another contender for the podium, caught in the same fall as the Ecuadorian champion.

Unlike Carapaz, the fifth in the 2020 Tour did not get back in the saddle, suffering “severe right shoulder pain“, according to his Movistar team, who took him to a hospital.