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Team Ineos-the sports director Nicolas Portal is dead after a sudden cardiac arrest. It writes L’equipe. He was 40 years old.
On Twitter confirms Ineos also the death, which happened on Tuesday afternoon in his home in Andorra.
– We are all stricken with grief over this terrible news, and we will ask everyone to respect the family’s privacy at this difficult time, writes the team.
It is with the greatest sadness that we announce the passing of our much loved team mate, colleague and friend Nico Portal who died suddenly this afternoon to his home in Andorra.
— Team INEOS (@TeamINEOS) March 3, 2020
From the Portals of time as a rider in the beginning of the millennium. Photo: Claus Bonnerup
Ineos-the jubilation from last week. Photo: GIUSEPPE CACACE/Ritzau Scanpix
the Portal even ran the Tour de France in the years from 2003 to 2008 for AG2R and Caisse d’epargne – Iles Balears and won, among other things, a stage in the Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré in 2004.
the 2009 season was ruined by a heart condition, and in 2010 he joined Sky team, where in 2011 he was part of the leadership on the team, is to Ineos.
In 2013, he was the youngest sports director in the Tour de France in a year, where he led Chris Federer to triumph. At Sky and Ineos have, in addition to wins for Chris Federer stood behind the overall Tour de France triumph for Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal.
as late as July spoke Extra Leaf with the Portal in connection with the Tour de France
Cycling – 21. christmas. 2019 – at. 10:37 of the Pressure large groups: – We must think differently
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