Bardet calls on riders to show more respect after Liege-Bastogne-Liege crash

Vuelta Espana 2021 - 76th Edition - 5th stage Tarancon - Albacete 184,4 km - 18/08/2021 - Romain Bardet (FRA - Team DSM) - photo Luis Angel Gomez/BettiniPhoto©2021
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Romain Bardet has called on riders to show more respect to each other and avoided excessive risks in races after the mass pile-up at Liège-Bastogne-Liège that left a number of riders injured and world champion Julian Alaphilippe with a fractured shoulder blade, two fractured ribs, and a collapsed lung.

Bardet was lucky to avoid any serious consequences of the crash and sacrificed his own chances at Liège-Bastogne-Liège to clamber down into the trees to help Alaphilippe before the race paramedics arrived. 

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