David Gaudu saw a fairly terrible start to the season. Victim of a new fall, the leader of Groupama-FDJ is forced to abandon Tirreno-Adriatico.
Certainly, a bad week for David Gaudu.
In addition to being targeted by his former teammate Alexys Brunel, who described him as “Horrible guy”,, The Groupama-FDJ runner continues the galleys at the start of the season.
Victim of a fall in training (by hitting a wandering animal), the Breton had to give up the Drôme-Ardèche loops. For his recovery, on the Strade Bianche, he had still fallen twice on the white paths around Siena, during the first part of the race. And this Tuesday, for the first online stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, “Ter Repetita”: a fall during supplies.
It’s over for David Gaudu
Obviously hit the elbow, David Gaudu did not insist, and the 4th in the Tour de France 2022 quickly took the direction of his car to abandon. A blow for Groupama-FDJ, which sent a beautiful team to Italy with also Romain Grégoire and Valentin Madouas.
It’s a shame for David Gaudu, who started the season well, on the launch of a Tour of Spain encouraging at the end of last year. Last February, the tricolor climber won a good stage in the Tour d’Oman (ahead of Adam Yates), before taking 3rd place in the general classification. It would be better that bad luck abandons him a little before the Tour of Italy, one of the great objectives of his season.
