Yesterday he entered the target of Tomares sleepwalking, where Mads Pedersen had the upper hand, and sat shocked against the gates
“Unfortunately, Roglic will not be at the start of stage 17 due to yesterday’s crash,” they announced from the official account of Slovenian team Jumbo on the social network Twitter. “You had ambitious plans the last few days, but unfortunately that was not possible,” they told Primoz Roglic after they received a huge blow in the last piece yesterday, Tuesday.
Cruel cycling. He sleepwalked into Tomares’ goal, where Mads Pedersen had the upper hand, and sat against the fences in shock. Blood flowed from the right arm. He barely moved it. I looked at nothing. He was surrounded by colleagues and rivals like Remco Evenepoel. “Whew. It’s an ugly fall,” they agreed. Ugly and dishonest for a broker of such value and worth so much.
A cyclist like Roglic can change everything. He turned the most harmless stage into chaos. It was enough with a dry blow, of class, on the slope two kilometers from Tomares’ goal. Rough. The Slovenian is second in the general classification after Evenepoel. It is not worth it. Nonconformist. Champion. He won the last three editions of the Vuelta. He surprised with his whiplash. Only guys with the punch of Pedersen, Van Poppel, Ackerman and Wright could follow in his wake. Enric Mas and the leader, Evenepoel, were cut where they least expected. Roglic never sleeps. The Vuelta went crazy. Everything happened and at full speed.
In that tumult Evenepoel noticed that his rear tire was slack, flat. I raise my hand. Since the bad luck happened in the last three kilometres, they would give him the same time as the group he was running in, just a few seconds behind Roglic. Saved by the ordinance. “Calm down,” one of the judges told him. The Belgian obeyed and walked the distance to the finish in slow motion. That scene contrasted with what was happening before us. The fight continued. Panic. Roglic kept kicking until, with the last banner in sight, he was overtaken by those dragging his slipstream.
The Slovenian wanted to catch up with the wake of Pedersen, Van Poppel and Acckerman with a pounding heart to scratch for a few more seconds and at the limit of the effort he touched Wright and fell violently to the ground. Almost KO He almost groped the 200 meters. He officially came in just 8 seconds ahead of the pack and Evenepoel. So little loot cost him a trail of blood. With one minute and 26 seconds behind Evenepoel in the general classification, he will not continue in the Vuelta.
The thirst started running from the start in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River, at the gate of the Doñana Park. Light, sand and water, salty and fresh. And yet thirsty. Drought. The largest permanent lagoon in Doñana, Santa Olalla, has just dried up. Juan Sebastián Elcano left Sanlúcar and arrived in this port after making the first world trip. The Earth was round 500 years ago. But the other Vuelta opted for a day made for flat earthers. From Sanlúcar to Tomares, already in Seville. Right. No hills, except for the final slope, waiting for Evenepoel to face Roglic and Enric Mas this week in the remaining mountains, Piornal and Sierra de Guadarrama.
So it was an opportunity for the sprinters and also for the adventurers. The ghost of Elcano. By Ander Okamika from Biscay and Luis Ángel Maté from Andalusia, who sails this Vuelta with a mission: to repopulate the Sierra Bermeja, the lung that burned out a year ago next to his house in Marbella. “Mate convinced me at the beginning to go with him to plant trees,” Okamika said.
The man from Marbella promised at the start of the Vuelta that he will plant a tree for every kilometer driven. He and Okamika escaped from Sanlúcar. A sip of chamomile and run. “We must be aware that we are facing an (environmental) crisis without precedent in our history,” said the Basque player of Euskaltel-Euskadi. environmental apostle. He was joined on the trip by ex-triathlete Okamika, who was born in another fishing village, Lekeitio. Together they crossed the plains of the rice paddies with a lead of up to four minutes. small.
“With five or six in the break, the peloton can be surprised,” said Maté at the start. But there were only two. Couple of. gave the same “On these roads I learned to run”, the Andalusian motivated himself, already recovered from the respiratory infection that kept him at the stern of the pack for days. Together they covered 175 kilometers with the dry air against them. 175 more trees. It was his gift. The rest, the last 14 kilometers, were taken care of by the Pedersen Trek and Cofidis de Coquard, the fastest. That’s how the script was until Roglic improved it with a nice brushstroke. Unexpected. In bold. Ambitious. Of a cyclist who sets out to win.
It started to the left as soon as the road went up the short slope that went up to Tomares. He blew up the race. He converted the flat stage and transferred it to a ramp he invented. brave. Able to go around the world. Elcano. He wasn’t so lucky. He took just 8 seconds of his courage and a bloody blow to his right arm that could cost him his career. He played as a great runner, as he did on his way to the Covadonga Lakes last year. Everything or nothing. Cycling is sometimes relentless with those who care most about it.
Source: La Verdad
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