Cycling in The dark, images of dead bodies and coffins in the streets of Ecuador and the world around them. Richard Carapaz (26) looks on with dismay at the situation in his home country: “No one was prepared to take on this monster.”
“It’s heart-breaking to see what is currently all of them are playing in my home country and the rest of the world,” says INEOS didn Carapaz of the Italian Gazzetta dello Sport . “The terrible pictures, it was heart-breaking. It has been the hardest-hit areas. I have been living there, not even 700 miles away. It is an economic and tourist destination in the heart of the region. Ecuador was not ready for such a crisis. No one was prepared to take on this monster.”
I have to think about it in order to help people who are unemployed to do. I just want to make sure that they have enough to eat.
Richard Carapaz
After the klimgeit of last year’s Tour of Italy, won away from his Movistar Team may maintain an action. Carapaz in Europe, when the British wielerformatie, all activity is temporarily stopped due to the sudden death of sports director Nicolas Portal as the coronacrisis. Shortly after that, he went back to his family in the dominican republic. “Fortunately, I live in an area where few people are infected. My parents live close by and are very healthy. However, not everyone has the same amount of luck. That’s why I think about it, in order to help people who are unemployed to do. I just want to make sure that they have enough to eat.”
Carapaz think, provisionally, with great prices. This is the situation in the home country have to be busy. “I am training to do a little bit of it on the bike. However, this epidemic has been too unpredictable to set goals. Its public health is currently a priority. I’ve got to have confidence in a good outcome, but we have to have all of them jointly to draw up. Together, we can make this crisis to be overcome”, he sounds hopeful.
