Complete the experience at full speed fifth stage of the 103rd edition of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, a stage that presented a profile for the day of Friday that is one of the most disputed and contested so far in the Catalan round, with more alternatives, as before. The stage started at Altafulla and graduated to Viladecansin one of two unpublished arrivals of this edition of Return to Catalonia.
Ahead, two 2nd category climbs that manage to fuel the race and rev it up, including the C climboll de Les Ventoses and the Alt de la Creu d’Aragall, both second categories. There were several escape attempts, but none of them had enough margin to think that they could stay with the Viladecans. In the back, in the platoon, team leader Pogacar, UAE Team Emiratesgave the team a spotlight Israelwho chased the fugitives for many kilometers.
Within a few kilometers the escapees were able to dream of glory. 68 kilometers from the metro Óscar Rodríguez, Jacopo Mosca, Enzo Paleni, Georg Steinhauser and Christopher Juul-Jense They have a 2’35” margin over the peloton, but the big group is gradually closing in on them and that’s why on the first slopes of Alt of Creu d’Aragall (6.5 kilometers at an average slope of 6.1% and a maximum ramp of 13%) is German Georg Steinhauser the Spaniards will attack his wheel Oscar Rodríguez.
A movement that would last less than a breath and 32 kilometers from the finish both shook hands before being devoured by a platoon holding a knife between its teeth and at full speed towards the intermediate sprint of Sant Vicenç dels Horts. They were chased in the last meters of the descent of the pass and from this moment the platoon flew instead of running.
The Anear Viladecans It had complications because of its roundabouts, its ramps and its curves but it was very clean, and in fact the race was decided in a long straight, in a clean sprint where the Frenchman. Axel Laurance was the fastest, ahead of the winner of the previous stage, the Dutchmans Marijn van den Bergwhich is about to do double.
End a day that is more difficult and more stressful than it may seem at the beginning where the news of the day, beyond the success ofand Lauranceis where the big favorites saved the day without incident, looking forward to Saturday’s great battle.
Source: La Verdad
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