Groves took a hard-fought sprint victory in Tarragona after a rough finish

Date:

Sprinters are a different breed in the cycling world and they don’t usually waste opportunities when they present themselves. The list of sprinters in the Vuelta is not at the highest level, but the fastest cyclists in the peloton present at the race know that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand, in fact there are five, the days in which they can show their point of view. speed, and this Tuesday was the first of them.

iFrameResize({log:true, checkOrigin: false, sizeHeight:true, heightCalculationMethod : ‘max’}, ‘.iframe-resize’);

Before the race starts Andorra la Vella the aussie Kaden Groves He did not hide his weapons and made sure that within his team, Alpecin-Deceuninck, they have a plan and if they do it right, he can aim to dispute the victory in a difficult and technical stage result at the same time. So it is. We do not know, because of how the sprint is prepared, whether the last chapter of the third phase of Lap It has been as expected in the Belgian squad, but there is no doubt that the outcome is as announced: victory for Kaden Grovesahead of the Colombian Sebastian Molanowho relies on his team’s delivery UAE Team Emiratesbut the uphill finish line was too long for him and he ended up burying the shovel.

gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, ‘c:twitterwi-wUmBnnKy’, function () {
var x = document.createElement(‘script’);
x.setAttribute(“type”,”text/javascript”);
x.setAttribute(“src”, “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”);
x.setAttribute(“charset”, “utf-8”);
$(“.twitter-tweet”).closest( “span” ).append(x);
});

Up to this point the stage has lived up to expectations. In the usual breakaway, in this case consists of Argentine Eduardo Sepulvedathe second day he separated, and the Spanish runners David Gonzalez and ander okamika, the latter chose the most defensive. The three did well and were able to complete a large number of kilometers in the lead of the race, until the peloton decided it was time to end their adventure.

The group tackled the last kilometers very long and at full speed. They were all very close and just over four kilometers from the finish line there was a fall, with the worst unemployed being the French. Coquard and the Colombian Buitrago, remained on the asphalt writhing in pain.

From this point the pace increased even more and the sprinter teams were ahead, entering the city ​​of tarragona with a delicate finish that everyone was warned about. There is more than one elbow to get the position, especially from Van den Berg that he was a small fire and that he took a curve at an excessive speed, going to the ground. molano sped up, but Groves came from behind to pick up his fifth victory of the season – two of them in the Volta Ciclista and Catalunya- and second in the Vuelta, after an achievement in Cabo de Gata last year.

Source: La Verdad

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Share post:

Subscribe

Popular

More like this
Related