Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 1 - Nice Moyen Pays to Nice - France - August 29, 2020. Team INEOS Grenadiers rider Luke Rowe of Britain finishes. Pool via REUTERS/Stuart Franklin
NICE, France (Reuters) - Briton Luke Rowe hit out at Astana after the riders from the Kazakh team piled on the pressure -- and then paid the price --on a wet descent during the first stage of the Tour de France on Saturday.
Jumbo Visma's Tony Martin, one of the peloton's veterans, had signalled for the pack to slow down on a long downhill section to avoid crashes on a rain-hit ride, but Astana refused to take their collective foot off the gas.
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