Groves worth two

The sprint of the return is called Caden Groves. The 24-year-old Australian won with Second day in a rowthis time in a cleaner volata than the day before, from an unexpected intruder, Filippo Ganna, the brilliant time trialist the Ineos, who eventually donned the sprinter suit permission from his boss, Geraint Thomas. And he wasn’t far from getting it. The Alpecin worked throughout the tour in favor of Groves, who did not squander the opportunity in Burriana. The layout offers between five and seven options for massive arrivals, which aren’t as low as the race’s name might suggest, namely more than 25 percent. The Belgian team scored well. And for now, celebrate the plenary session. Two fingers.

The route featured the classic script of for the second year in a row a flat stage: impossible escape, danger of fans and falls and end of sprint. But before we leave Morella, that beautiful city that was victorious Roberto Heras and Denis Menchov At the beginning of the century it was necessary to do this Count of the wounded from the day before. the Montonera This happened near Tarragona Kobe Goossens, Bryan Coquard and Ruben Guerreiro, who took pride in crossing the finish line on Tuesday despite their respective fractures, which was later confirmed in the infirmary. Guerreiro’s task hits directly one of the roosters, Enric Mas, who loses the colleague who was supposed to accompany him on the mountain. The main Kapo, Remco Evenepoel, is also in trouble in his army: Louis Vervaeke and Andrea Bagioli rolled off the hook, despite the low momentum of the peloton to bounce back after a bad night. Those mysterious viruses.

There was a leak, yes, but almost symbolically. Eric Fagúndez, Uruguayan from Burgos braHe rolled 120 kilometers alone, on a journey to nowhere that was doomed to fail from the start. If it is already difficult for a group of refugees to get to such a stage, it is all the more difficult to have an adventure in solitude. Fagundez knew it. Also its director Rubén Pérez. In fact, they were tempted to hit the brakes as they had Just before Sean Quinn, but eventually they decided to move on. Cycling pursues interests other than victory. Show a good image, show the sponsor and presence on the podium fighter of the day and gratitude for being invited to the Vuelta are more than enough reasons to bother.

The cavalcade of Fagundez ended in the year the Col de Ibolathe only mountainous difficulty of the day he had for a while another travel companion, Eduardo Sepúlvedawho jumped from behind to steady his mountain jersey. A Uruguayan and an Argentine, wheel to wheel. Two less classic nationalities in professional cycling. Curiously, cyclists are out this year five countries in South America. In addition to the traditional Colombians, Ecuador and Venezuela are also represented. The squad expands.

The ascent to Ibola Especially the captains showed for the first time at the top of the group to the Jumbo team and to Evenepoelwho didn’t want any surprises and took the lead. The presence of the red jersey had a second later appearance, even hotter, when he decided to look for that six bonus seconds of Nule’s intermediate sprint, to the surprise of the Green Jersey, Groves. The Belgian continues to lead the standings, now with another bite: 11″ at Enric Mas and 37″ at Jonas Vingegaard. Remco is running to the Pogacar at this beginning of the Vuelta. The show appreciates it, but we’ll see if he doesn’t pay for the boasts, as happened to the Slovenian.

General Ranking

after cyclist	equipment	Time
1 Caden Groves	ADC	4:23:43
2 Filippo Ganna	IGD	+00:00
3 Dries van Gestel	HAVE	+00:00
4 Alberto Dainese	DSM	+00:00
5 Lewis Askey	GFC	+00:00
6 Edward Theuns	TFS	+00:00
7 David Gonzalez	CJR	+00:00
8th Geoffrey Soupe	HAVE	+00:00
9 Jesus Ezquerra Muela	BBH	+00:00
10 Jarrad Drizners	GMBH	+00:00

after cyclist	equipment	Time
1 Remco Evenepoel	SOQ	5:12:29 p.m
2 Enric More Nicolau	MOV	+00:11
3 Lenny Martinez	GFC	+00:17
4 Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen	TJV	+00:37
5 Alexander Vlasov	BOH	+00:39
6 Cian Uijtdebroeks	BOH	+00:39
7 cousin roglic	TJV	+00:43
8th Juan Ayuso Pesquera	UAD	+00:44
9 Marc Soler	UAD	+00:48
10 Joao Pedro Gonçalves Almeida	UAD	+00:48

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