Millar 'sorry' for Vuelta protest
Cycling: David Millar has apologised to his Cofidis team director Francis van Londersele for quitting the Tour of Spain.
David Millar woke up a chastened if bruised rider yesterday when his Cofidis team director Francis van Londersele said that the 25-year-old Scot had apologised for quitting the Tour of Spain on Sunday in protest at race conditions described as "inhuman".
Van Londersele said Millar had apologised to his team mates and staff "for a decision which has a lot to do with his youth" when he handed in his race number a metre from the finish atop Col d'Angliru after crashing twice in a 15th stage marred by heavy rain and fog.
Van Londersele added: "It's a question of self-control. But he knows as well as anybody that when you start a course you accept all it entails, be it dangerous or not, and there are accepted ways of registering your protest about conditions.
"David knows this and he has accepted it." Yesterday was the Vuelta's second rest day before today's 96-mile Aviles to Leon stage.
Van Londersele said Millar had apologised to his team mates and staff "for a decision which has a lot to do with his youth" when he handed in his race number a metre from the finish atop Col d'Angliru after crashing twice in a 15th stage marred by heavy rain and fog.
Van Londersele added: "It's a question of self-control. But he knows as well as anybody that when you start a course you accept all it entails, be it dangerous or not, and there are accepted ways of registering your protest about conditions.
"David knows this and he has accepted it." Yesterday was the Vuelta's second rest day before today's 96-mile Aviles to Leon stage.
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