Nairo Quintana withdrew from Burgos 2025

A fall in the third stage of the Tour of Burgos took Nairo Quintana from the competition two weeks after the return to Spain.

The Colombian cyclist had an accident on Thursday, August seven during the neutralized departure and although the fraction ended 12 minutes from the winner Léo Bisiaux, he could not take the game for the fourth day in Burpellet.

“After the fall suffered yesterday, Nairo Quintana did not leave for today. Mejore yourself, capo!”, The Movistar team on its social networks said.

Before abandonment, Nairo was in 69th position of the general classification to 13:18 of the Bisiaux leader. Egan Bernal, Diego Pescador, Brandon Rivera, Esteban Chaves and Germán Gómez are the Colombians who follow on the route.

The team has not yet detailed its medical part and there are doubts if it will arrive in good shape to Spain that will run from August 23 to September 14.

His intention was to run it. He won it in 2016.

“We will try to do it in the best way with my team, we will be in the career of our house. First we will enjoy it, to try to do our best and why not win it, we always go with that idea”he explained a few weeks ago.