Mikel Nieve abandons Tour de France, fails to finish Grand Tour for first time in 19 attempts
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Updated 16/09/2020 at 13:34 GMT
Mitchelton-Scott's super domestique has failed to finish a Grand Tour for the first time in 19 attempts. The Spaniard was supporting Adam Yates, but was forced to drop out of the Tour de France midway through Stage 17.
Mikel Nieve Ituralde of Spain and Team Mitchelton - Scott / during the 107th Tour de France 2020, Stage 5 a 183km stage from Gap to Privas 277m / #TDF2020 / @LeTour / on September 02, 2020 in Privas, France
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Super-domestique Mikel Nieve was forced to abandon the Tour de France during Wednesday Stage 17.
The 36-year-old Spaniard had been aiding Adam Yates on the mountain stages, but the Mitchelton-Scott team leader will be without his strongest deputy for the remainder of the Tour.
It is the first time Nieve has failed to finish a Grand Tour, with him making it to the end of all previous 18 Tours in his career.
Nieve has six top ten finishes to his name in Grand Tours and had never finished lower than 25th in the Giro, Vuelta or Tour, earning him a reputation as one of the leading super-domestique's in world cycling.
He was 48th going into Wednesday's Stage 17.
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