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Adam Yates receives apology and white jersey after Tour de France collision
Adam Yates got a statement of regret from the coordinators and the main youthful riders' white shirt for his inconveniences the morning in the wake of anguish an awesome crash with the flamme rouge flag in the Visit de France
The 23-year-old Orica-BikeExchange rider was sent tumbling over his handlebars late on Friday's stage seven to Lac de Payolle when the inflatable pennant one kilometer from home crumpled on to the street as he was going under - creating the peloton to stop and constraining coordinators to take the time holes from the 3km imprint.
Recordings on online networking indicated exactly how perilous the episode was as Yates was sent over his handlebars when the flag fell on to the street all of a sudden, additionally taking out a bolster motorbike.
Yates rose up out of the episode with a few knocks and wounds, additionally some prize late on Friday evening as coordinators affirmed he had propelled one second of Etixx-QuickStep's Julian Alaphilippe in the youthful riders' grouping.
That choice came past the point of no return for Yates to be given the shirt on the platform on Friday, yet coordinators did their best to compensate for it.
On Saturday morning, Visit chief Christian Prudhomme went to Yates in the group transport to apologize for the occurrence, and Yates was quick to proceed onward.
"(Prudhomme) just apologized for what happened," Yates said. "It's not his issue. Simply my misfortune, it's just as simple as that.
"I'm OK. Pretty beat up however it's one more day to recoup. We'll exactly what happens and ideally I get past alright."
As kindred Briton Steve Cummings was taking a performance win up the street for Measurement Information, Yates had assaulted off the front of the peloton, looking to get the seven seconds required to take white off Alaphilippe.
Yates conceded he had not anticipated that would get the shirt in the wake of hitting the deck.
"Not by any stretch of the imagination," he said. "The entire reason I was up there was to attempt to get the pullover, and I'd like to thank the association for sorting it out. I'll attempt to hang on for it to the extent that this would be possible."
Prudhomme said the standard had gave way after an observer coincidentally separated the link which kept it expanded - making it very quickly flatten.
"I simply needed to say sorry to learn Yates and to say 'Thank you' to him since he was extremely rich in his addresses and meetings after," Prudhomme said.
"I simply needed to shake hands with him and say, 'Too bad'."
