The stage of the day: the first grand final in Villuercas

Eight years had La Vuelta without having Extremadura as the protagonist and, after yesterday’s arrival in Villanueva de la Serena, today it will live its big day. For the first time in history, a day of the Spanish round will have a final in Alto Extremadura and will also be in a port of maximum importance, the Pico Villuercas. An ascent that begins in the same Guadalupe Monastery and that carries through its 14.5 kilometers at 6.2% to its summit, at an altitude of 1,580 meters, to an old communications center whose antennas have become the symbol of this rise. Final section in which there are also the hardest ramps at 15%.

It will be the high point of this second week of the race. Because the day will not only have that final port, but before, halfway through the stage, you climb Berzocana and, above all, Collado de Ballesteros, an authentic wall of almost three kilometers that reaches 20%. Everything to live the fight for the leadership. Norwegian Eiking seems doomed to give up the red jersey and among the candidates to succeed him, it will be necessary to see if Guillaume Martin, the French climber of the Cofidis placed at 58 “, he is able to assault the first position while defending the identical income he owns with Roglic, the virtual leader of the race.

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