Romain Bardet experienced hell on his bike. The neo-retired confessions are cold in the back.
Romain Bardet, it’s over. Last week, the 34 -year -old runner concluded a beautiful and long career on the Dauphiné roads. Not without class and panache. Elected combative of the day on one of the harshest steps in the course, the interested party split a baroud of honor worthy of his talent. With all the selflessness that was his own for almost 15 years.
As part of the online documentary of the Team entitled “Crash, Peloton under tension”, Romain Bardet confides and returns to sadly significant moments of his professional cyclist. We learn in particular that the Auvergne Pugnace has experienced no less than four concussions in his career.
Among these bad memories are his two abandonments on the 2020 and 2023 editions of the Tour de France. “” These abandonments correspond to two of the four concussions I had by cycling. With concussions, recovery processes are still quite long. To recover, it’s a big emotional shock “Explains Romain Bardet.
Bardet: “more than a collapsed world”
And to complete his point: ” When you break a bone, you often manage to set a return plan, mechanical things manage to solidify over time. For concussions, it’s different, we cannot do too much, the consequences can be irremediable. And the bitter regrets. As in 2020 when he had to choose the path of reason while he was making the podium of the Grande Boucle. “” It was more than a world that collapsed He recalls.
“” I was fourth in the general classification in the morning of this stage, I felt really goodRecalls Romain Bardet. At the time, I leave. I stood a little going up on the bicycle, the primary instinct means that we leave immediately. Especially since I played the general and that it was certainly for me the most important stage of this Tour de France! But I saw that I was not in my normal state, I really suffered, I was in a second state. I was able to finish the stage, but I don’t remember it anymore. Going by car to go to the hotel, I was taken headaches, big nausea. We were forced to stop several times … “”
