Subject: RE: Current Rider Abandons List Joly became the fourth rider to pull out of the Tour de France when he abandoned on the seventh stage on Friday. Joly got off his bike just before the peloton rode into Andorra, having gone over four climbs and ridden 175km of the mammoth 224km ride from Barcelona to Arcalis ski resort. Belgium Jurgen Van de Walle, and Dutchmen Piet Rooijakkers and Robert Gesink have already been forced out of the gruelling race, although all three riders abandoned after crashing. |