Dominion of the Jumbo, with the favorites in a handkerchief, with Ayuso and Mas showing their faces and in so many incidents, the records of the first 9 stages of the Vuelta

With the first nine episodes completed and the day off taken advantage of, it’s time to put the notes down and review what happened in this first part of 78th edition of the Spanish round

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START TOO MUCH

These first nine stages were not very calm, marked by setbacks and incidents. An inauspicious start to the first two days of the Vuelta in Barcelona was followed by the arrest of some brainless people who wanted to throw 400 liters of an oil-like liquid at passing cyclists, not to mention the thumbtacks they threw on the road , the disaster of Remco Evenepoel when he took an assistant from another team in front after crossing the finish line in Arinsal (Andorra) or the wonderful image that took place this Sunday in the decision-making process in Collado de la Cruz de Caravaca and how to represent them

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THE HEGEMONY OF JUMBO-VISMA

That the Dutch team is the strongest is something known before the start of the Vuelta in the Catalan capital and they are in charge of showing it in the least opportunity they have the opportunity to do so, to the point that they have allowed one of their gregarious luxury , the American Sepp Kuss, to wear the leader’s red jersey. It gives the feeling that the Wasp team knows they are superior, that they trust the legs of Roglic and Vingegaard, and that they are just waiting for Tourmalet to arrive

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REMCO EVENEPOEL BREAK DOWN

The team of Belgian Remco Evenepoel, winner of the last edition of the Vuelta, knows that his team is not as strong as Jumbo-Visma in the mountains and he also knows that he has to scratch a few seconds because of the high mountains, in the same scary day waiting those in Tourmalet and in l’Angliru, Roglic, and above all Vingegaard, who had hardly yet shown themselves, were more priori.

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IN A HANDKERCHIEF

After the first nine stages there was only eleven seconds difference between the great favorites until the final victory. Remco Evenepoel is the best classified of them all, 2’22” behind the leader, the American Sepp Kuss and Enric Mas are seventh at 2’33”, only Juan Ayuso, eighth, is 2’43”, but all of favorites on a napkin

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ENRIC MAS AND JUAN AYUSO, KASAKASA

Right now both Enric Mas and Juan Ayuso are showing their faces and responding to the expectations they have. Both the Spaniard, second, three times, and the man from Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​third last year, have not felt the acceleration of their main rivals, Evenepoel, Rogloic or Vingegaard when they happen. It is true that so far the episodes have not arrived, but what has been seen so far, they should be given a vote of confidence

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SOLER AND LANDA EXCUSE

Had the Vuelta finished on Monday, Marc Soler would have finished second and Mikel Landa fifth. Both performed very well. The man from Vilanova i la Geltrú knows that his job is nothing but to give his all so that Juan Ayuso stays as high as possible on the table. Not only does the former Movistar player fully fulfill his role as a luxury gregarious person, but he also enjoys it. And what can be said about Mikel Landa, who does not want to run this edition of the Vuelta after a poor Tour and his team “forced” him to fight it

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There have been up to five different leaders in these first nine stages, where the American Sepp Kuss had the privilege of wearing red, while working for Vingegaard and Roglic, and where the young Frenchman Lenny Martinez, from the Spanish , he led the Vuelta two history-making stages, as he became the youngest cyclist to lead the Spanish round, usurping the throne, nothing more and nothing less, than Miguel Indurain