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what happened to Valverde today?

 

Read here from velonews

 

Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) described seeing Sanchez having to abandon because he was so cold that he couldn’t control his bike and Spain’s Juan Manuel Garate (Belkin) told Spanish TV, “I saw Luis Leon go away in an ambulance, completely frozen…up to today it’s been very hot, suddenly it’s dropped by 30 degrees. It’s okay when it’s cold but you need time to adapt.” Valverde described how he almost fainted from cold on the descent of the Coll de Ordino but guided by teammates he staged an excellent recovery to climb back to within 15 seconds of the Nibali (Astana)/ Horner (RadioShack) group before those two riders took flight...

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