Big victory of pride for Evenepoel after the sinking of the Tourmalet and no fight between the favourites

A champion is always a champion and despite the fall experienced in Friday stage of the Tourmalet the Belgian Remco Evenepoel showed this Saturday that he wants to continue being the star of 78th edition of the Vuelta. If many things prevailed in the last edition of the Spanish round and the world time trial champion, it was caste and pride, which he showed this Saturday by showing his non-conformist and combative character, the class that has always characterized him and that led him to show his cards from early in the 14th round, until he formed a perfect pair with the Frenchman Romain Bardet.

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Both had ridden more than 80 kilometers in the lead of the race, with Remco shouldering a good portion of the weight of the escape, until 3.9 kilometers from the finish he looked at his battle partner on this sunny Saturday and said see you later , achieving the victory that he celebrated through tears, which he certainly did not know well knowing his way of being and the humiliation suffered on Friday, but that should serve him to continue growing as a cyclist.

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Dropping from the favorites, almost 28 minutes behind, the notables of the peloton let him lead the race on a stage that had four mountain passes, two in the special category, Horcere and Larrabefore descending towards the Taste and Larra-Belagua Eventually. It is a day of marking the best classified cyclists in the general classification, with the team UAE Team Emirates pulling in the group of celebrities and with their leader Juan Ayuso pretending to strange movements on the hard ramps of Larra (15.1 kilometers of climbing at an average slope of 7.8%, which debuted at the Vuelta) which was not supported by any of the candidates to dethronel Jumbo-Visma.

These accelerations produced only occasional hot flashes and after that peace reigned among the best classified runners, in a group that suffered only a mechanical mishap of Jonas Vingegaard who had to change bikes and what they were riding Juan Ayuso, Marc Soler, Mikel Landa and David de la Cruz.

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It’s the last kilometer of the day Larra-Belagua he Bahrain-Victorius replaced the Dutch Wout Poels the responsibility of pulling the group of nobles, but without any movement, beyond the attempt of Sabadell runner David de la Cruzwith no team at the end of his contract with Astanathat scratched a few seconds and allowed him to move up two positions, staying on the brink of an American-dominated top ten for another day Sepp Kussfollowed by his colleagues at Jumbo-Visma Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingagaard.