The Dane took his third win at Talavera de la Reina ahead of Britain’s Wright, against whom the Slovenian had filed suit
It’s easy to imagine Primoz Roglic jumping for joy in his living room when he saw Dane Mads Pedersen win the sprint from Talavera de la Reina. Form? Roglic, who crashed in the Tomares stage on Tuesday and had to stop, can barely walk. Still very battered. Pedersen is not on his team, but the Slovenian was with him. Why? He didn’t want the other person fighting for victory, Briton Fred Wright, to win. As the day played out, Roglic put the finger of blame on Wright, who he accuses of causing his accident. “It wasn’t right. It shouldn’t have happened. There are cyclists who overtake you like nothing can happen. I’m not like that. I don’t want this to be the road the bike takes.”
Roglic has sued the British runner through a statement from his team, the Jumbo. “The way the fall happened is unacceptable. The accident was not caused by a bad road or unsafety, but by the behavior of a cyclist. I have no eyes on my back. Otherwise I would have been misled. Wright came up behind me and snatched the wheel from my hands before I knew it.” The footage of that arrival doesn’t clarify how the trip happened. Roglic saw it that way. And despite the bandage and the pain that still drags, surely he jumped when he saw Pedersen hit the cyclist he is accusing, and he enjoyed the Great Dane’s third win as if it were his own.
A day after Isabel II’s death, Talavera de la Reina was the start and finish. Go and come back. Before departure, there was a question: how is Carlos Rodríguez doing after Thursday’s crash? Gift. The young Andalusian, his skin red from the many scrapes, was still in the race. “These are occupational hazards,” he repeated in a veteran’s tone. He is 21 years old, sixth in his first Vuelta standings and the leader of a team the size of Ineos. One of his teammates, Tao Geoghegan Hart, the winner of the 2020 Giro d’Italia, described Carlos Rodríguez’s character as follows: “There is no stronger man than him. Keep fighting. My back is messed up, but it doesn’t even occur to me to complain when I see Carlos suffering like this ». The newcomer is already an example. The future awaits you with open arms. He has physical talent and is a rock. This Vuelta has placed him, together with Juan Ayuso, on the front page of the showcase.
From Talavera came the penultimate stage for those who live on escapes. Short and with two climbs to the port of Piélago, second category. McNulty, Okamika and Caicedo were right about the break. Craddock, Bizkarra, and Harper arrived late, after that train had already passed. But it was a journey with no destination. The Trek team, Pedersen’s, withdrew from the pack. They are a group that is convinced of the strength of their Danish leader. He had won the Montilla stage and before he also won the Tomares stage, he collected his pigeons. He showed them the profile of that day’s goal, on a slope, and said: “There is no one better than me in a finish like this. If you give 100 percent, I promise you a win.” He complied. That’s a leader. The Trek always had McNulty, Biscayan Okamika and Caicedo within reach.
And besides, Bahrain chose their side in the second passage through the port of Piélago. He ordered Mikel Landa to shoot. The man from Alava eliminated almost all sprinters in favor of his, Fred Wright’s. They were looking for a duel with Pedersen. Landa did his job and drowned greyhounds like Ackerman and Groves. It remained to descend to Talavera, wander around and open the sprint fight. The Trek put Pedersen in and was unfazed by a sprint from Scotson in the final kilometer. Wright, Roglic’s accused, was stuck at the wheel of Pedersen. And there it stayed. He couldn’t trace the Danes. At home, the injured Slovenian must have missed a few stitches during the celebration.
This Vuelta, which already seems to be in the hands of Remco Evenepoel, leader with 2.07 on Enric Mas and more than five minutes on Ayuso and ‘Superman’ López, still has the Sierra de Guadarrama stage left. Watch out. Sometimes it becomes a magician’s top hat and there are surprises. Like when in 1985 ‘Perico’ Delgado, accompanied by Pepe Recio, stole the win from the clueless Robert Millar. Or, more recently, as in 2015 on that funeral day for Tom Dumoulin. The Dutchman took his victory for granted. left over. I pay it.
His rival was Fabio Aru’s Astana. Enchanted team. One of the housemates, Vanotti, had had a very bad night, with a broken bone. painful. Astana announced his withdrawal, but the Italian showed up for breakfast. “I can’t miss a day like this,” he said. He limped. Silence at the table. The gesture set the group moving. He lit the flame. Go for Dumoulin, leader just six seconds ahead of Aru.
Mikel Landa was then in charge of taking down the Dutchman at La Morcuera. Unbuttoned, with his claws under the handlebars, the rider from Alava changed the name of the winner of the Vuelta. First he drowned Dumoulin and when Aru, Quintana and Majka were already a few meters ahead, Landa executed the Dutch leader. He grabbed it and took Chaves and ‘Purito’ with him. He isolated Dumoulin. He buried him 40 kilometers from the finish. Aru won the Vuelta. “This win belongs to the team,” Aru said. La Vuelta 2022 will be decided on that stage, in Navacerrada, Morcuera and Cotos, the last obstacles before Evenepoel; the last bullets of Enric Mas.
Source: La Verdad
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