two days ago, Sergio Higuita was damaged by a badly placed bicycle aid in the middle of the final climb, with vingegaard has already escaped with a great victory. He stuck out his elbow to walk after Juanpe He did the same when he found the Colombian hooked. Two days later, fate smiled upon him and he slammed his fist on the table. Sergio Higuita took the victory on stage 5 of Itzulia, starting and ending in Amorebieta. And he did it in a big way, winning with a big start in the final race against all the sprint favourites. The attack of the 25-year-old Bora runner had no response to his rivals and he took his first victory on the course, crossing the finish line ahead of Bagioli, Skjelmose, Sobrero, Schmid, Champoussin and the Spanish Ion Izagirrewho crossed the seventh. vingegaard he remains the leader in an unchanged general, with all the favorites finishing in the top group.
Stage 5 is a day of madness, of being careful not to get caught on the steep slopes, full of turns, which will lead the riders to the final battle. Ineos he tried to pull the group with 13 kilometers from the finish line, where, with 70 runners, quickly got a quarter of the applicants. The attacks followed each other.
At 9 kilometers, he tightened the rope enric mas, gritting their teeth on another short climb, on a narrow road that was starting to thin out the group. Chief Jonas Vingegaard, He clung to the Spaniard’s wheel to make it clear that today was not the day where the Spaniard would scratch a second. That acceleration was difficult and Ion Izaguirre began to shoot with the leader of Itzulia stuck until you reach a wide road with 7.2 kilometers to go.
The leading group made a small break in which to breathe which led to the addition of runners to that goal, about twenty applicants including all the favorites. In the absence of 4.3, came the final slope. No one is off the hook and everyone is thinking about the goal. There, the smartest is Higuita. The Colombian, winner of the Volta Catalunya in 2022, prevailed without argument, with a final sprint superior to his rivals, with an attack that shocked everyone.
Higuita thus achieved his first victory of the year, the first after the one achieved in stage 3 of the 2022 Tour of Poland in August.
It will be decided in the queen phase
In this way, everything will be decided in the last stage, the queen stage Itzulia this Saturday, beginning and ending eibar. Jonas Vingegaard, reigning Tour de France champion, reached the final stage with 13 seconds ahead of Mikel Landa (2nd) and 31″ with respect to the French David Gaudú32″ in danish Matthias Skjelmpose34″ to Italian Matteo Sobrero and Ion Izagirre, with Enric Mas in 7th place at 37″.
The queen stage this Saturday will have a total of 7 ports, three of them are the first category (Azukri, Krabelin and Izua) and one in the second (Gorla), a day of 137.8 km, demanding the legs because of the many attacks expected on the favorites. Nothing is decided and everything is going vingegaard. The emotion is guaranteed.
Source: La Verdad
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