Vingegaard started the bike and only a whole Landa could follow him in Itzulia

Maybe Jonas Vingegaard did not have around him a team as strong as on other occasions, but the Danish, 2022 Tour de France championis sufficient and remaining to carry with solvency and strictness the stagecoach reins of an Itzulia that this Thursday he had to complete a distance of 175.7 kilometers, with 3,091 meters of unevenness and four third-class climbs (Malkuartu, Santa Kiloma, Bezi and La Asturiana), which begins and ends with Santurtzi.

The 2022 Tour de France champion has loosened the reins a bit, letting go Vanhoucke, Caicedo, Tesfatsien, Barrenetxea and JousseaumThey rode in the lead of the race for many kilometers, until with 29 kilometers to go the race began to tighten behind them. First because the EF Education runners they want to be stars, comrades Carapaz, Urán and Chaves and then because in a week’s race any second was worth its weight in gold, therefore the few seconds at stake in the intermediate sprint lived as if their rent were higher.

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He went through the sprint first the rigada a Vingegaard who likes to have the entire race script well learned and controlled, and dislikes improvisations, before a Izagirre who did his best, taking the Dane by three seconds and the Basque by two.

The race is tensing vingegaard he gave his horses a little freedom, until entering the Asturiana is going to force the machine for real. It is not a very difficult port -in the third category, 7.4 kilometers of climbing with an average slope of 6.3% and the greatest hardness concentrated in the first four kilometers, reaching 10.5%-, but with steep slope enough to do. damage.

Vingeard He knew this and launched a powerful attack with 20 kilometers to go. Immediately no one came out for him, that’s all Michael Landa he was brave, he climbed up and stuck to his wheel and both opened a gap and made a path, to Mas, Gaudu, Izagirre, Gall or Higuitawho looked at each other out of the corner of their eyes, but did not move.

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They have arrived Vingegaard and Landa to have more than 30 seconds of margin and both understand each other well, both in the climb and in the descent with sectors that brought them. Mikel risked everything he could on the descent to try to bring down or punish Jonas, and he was not given the last relay to try to surprise the Dane and win the game, in what was his first victory after a four-year drought.

From behind, the rest of the favorites came with more gusto than a pack of wolves, and luckily they had the insistence of the runners of Soudal-Quick Stepthe only one who undertook the work of harassment and demolition of Landa and Vingegaard. In the end, Mikel and Jonas were cold-blooded and had enough margin to fight each other for the stage. Landa tried, but could not do with a Vingeggard who already has two wins in four stages held at Basque Country and that five of his six victories at the start of 2023 have been achieved in Spain.

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At two stops, Vingegaard continued to command the stagecoach Itzuliawith more margin, twelve seconds, in a landa which combines its second position, above Gaudú, Sobrero, Izagirre and More. Emotions are guaranteed for the remaining two days.