Success and Tour leadership for Adam Yates and cruel departure for Enric Mas

stellar doublet of Yates brothers in the first stage of Tour de France in Bilbaoone day their parents, John and Susan, They must be the happiest people in the world. An outcome of a first phase that has been amazing, massive, as expected, because of how it was run, because of the atmosphere that was experienced in every meter on its first day and notably at the moment the news that no one wanted was known : The abandoning the Balearic Enric Mas after a heavy fall that occurred 21 kilometers from the finish line and where the Ecuadorian Richard Carapazwith the knees touching.

We have already warned him in the stage preview from MD, of the dangers that come with the start of this Tour, and unfortunately, one of the main riders has called to be the stars of the race and to fight for Final podium of Paris he has to get off the bike early.

While all attention is focused on knowing what is happening enric masthe race is ahead, facing the last 21 kilometers of the day, after leaving the high point of Nursery -Mas’s fall occurred in the last kilometer of the descent- and facing the last ascent of the day, Pikewhere the Tadej Pogacar’s UAE team will take action before the delirium of a hobby, of an orange tide, as great as it expects.

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before, Gugliedmi, Gregaard, Calmejane, Eenkhoorn and Ferron they rode in the lead for more than 130 kilometers, taking advantage of the broken and nervous profile of an explosive day where Tadej Pogacar removed any doubts that may have existed about his performance and his fitness, after he broke his wrist in Liège-Bastogne-Liège and since then the Slovenian Championship.

put ‘Handsome’ (double Tour champion in 2020 and 2021) in adam yates to work with 10 kilometers to go, which caused all the alarm in the peloton and forced the big favorites to move up. the danish Jonas Vingegaarddefending last year’s win, responded for the first time, but the best to do it was Adam’s twin brother, simon. Both were ahead, quickly taking a 13-second margin over the pack of favorites. Jumbo-Visma, Vingegaard’s team shot to close the gap, but ended up having their foot up.

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Adam and Simon they faced the last kilometer, which was quite choppy, with enough margin to play victory between them, and Adam, when the road was 6% and at 27 km/h, forced the engine and neither could follow him Simon. This is not the first time both first and second have finished in the Tour, it happened in the fifth stage of 2013.

In this way, the British rider, 9th in the Tour last year, added victory number 22 of his professional career and gave a new victory in the Tour to British cycling, which he also achieved in 2020. Success and leadership for Adam Yates (30 years) in a victory which can also be interpreted as saying that I am here if needed, in a fantastic start of the Tour in Bilbaowhich recorded a serious decline of abandoning Enric Mas in the first exchange.

And this Sunday, the second round of the Tour in the Basque Country, with a long stage of 208.9 kilometers, between Vitoria-Gasteiz and San Sebastian.