Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates), his shorts ripped open in a crash with 10km to go on stage 17 of the Vuelta a Espaņa, laid into his team as they attempted to help him up from the ground, the frustration of a dismal season and an even worse Vuelta bubbling forth. After the stage, once he`d cooled down and medics tended to his wounds, he was declared fit to complete the next four stages despite taking a hard blow and issued an apology for his outburst. `I took an impact to my lower back, which worries me, as well as the pain,` Aru said in a press relelease.ADVERTISEMENT The Italian tangled with Bahrain-Merida`s Hermann Pernsteiner on the descent of the Alto de Gontzegarain, which led into the base of the Alto de Balcon de Bizkaia - the final climb of the day. `We were descending at 70 km/h and it could have been a lot worse,` Aru said. When he finally got up, Aru was shouting angrily about his bike. `I apologise for how I reacted after the crash, but adrenaline was running, I was aching and you lose the control sometimes. I hope to recover quickly. We`ll see tomorrow morning. It depends on how I get through the night.` It has been a hard year for Aru, who crashed on stage 2 of the Vuelta and has struggled to live up to the reputation of a former race winner. It has been compounded by his struggles in the Giro d`Italia - where he consistently lost time until abandoning on stage 19. Earlier in the season he abandoned the Volta a Catalunya with muscle problems.
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