{"id":245991,"date":"2025-07-07T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245991\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:06:11","slug":"it-wasnt-deliberate-im-not-a-reckless-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245991\/","title":{"rendered":"It wasn\u2019t deliberate. I\u2019m not a reckless rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to take any risks \u2014 I was just on Milan\u2019s wheel. When he launched his sprint, I didn\u2019t even feel like I\u2019d touched anything,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;I was clearly knocked off balance, lost my pedal, my shoe&#8230; I nearly lost the whole shoe&#8230; and that was that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then came the aforementioned apology, with Coquard visibly getting emotional. &#8220;I really want to apologise to Jasper Philipsen and the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/alpecin-deceuninck\" title=\"Alpecin-Deceuninck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alpecin-Deceuninck<\/a> team\u2014even though it wasn\u2019t deliberate. I\u2019m not&#8230; I\u2019m not a reckless rider, but still, it\u2019s never pleasant,&#8221; he concludes. &#8220;I knew all of you would be here; I wasn\u2019t even sure I wanted to contest the final sprint&#8230; but I pulled myself together. Then another crash. As for me, my health \u2014 we\u2019ll see. I\u2019m in pain all over, a few abrasions&#8230; we\u2019ll just have to wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to take any risks \u2014 I was just on Milan\u2019s wheel. When he launched his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-245991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114813520108437841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}