Everyone is watching Kaden Groves and of Wout Van Aert and suddenly a cheeky Czech boy appeared Pavel Bittner to be faster than them and achieve success on the streets of Sevilleat the end of 5th stage of La Vuelta. The stage was marked, on other days, by high temperatures, above 43º, which forced the cyclists to almost exhaust their team’s water and ice reserves. A day where once again the modest teams of Euskaltel-Euskadi and Kern Pharma Team They once again became the stars by putting two of their members in the beginning, Txomin Juaristi and Bird Ruiz leading the race with a breakaway that they carried out until the last 30 kilometers. Attention now is the third escape ofand Bird Ruizwhich has already escaped over 444 kilometers, which is said to be close.
Never better said, the stage was cooked on low heat, with little movement so that the jersey did not stick to the pan, with the only incentive to see how far the two heroes of the day would last at the head of the race and who win the game with the bonus sprint of The Algaba 24 kilometers from the finish line, where Groves won the match against Van Aert.
Once the two brave men of the day have been neutralized, the tension in the platoon sometimes rises. Cyclists hit the gas, took to the road and the tension was palpable in the atmosphere. Nerves that lasted for several kilometers, until calm calm returned to the peloton.
On approaching the city of Seville Teams with fast men in their ranks put out their elbows to take the first positions, a battle interrupted only by a few seconds of falling on a curve of Rui Costa and Owain Doll to the ill fortune of the departure of the Portuguese.
On the home stretch of Seville, a wide three kilometer avenue, the stage victory will be decided. Heleader Roglic He was seen in the lead until the last three kilometers, until he entered the security zone, where Mikel Landa spike. Fortunately it was within the last 3,000 meters. Arkéa, dsm, Alpecin, Visma and even the Euskaltel They fight to get the top position.
The moment of truth
Groves I had a sprint between my eyebrows. He knows his skills in a pure and hard sprint like today and that he has the best launch train, which he rides well.and Van Aert. The Belgian champion is looking for a surprise as he did in his last victory. surprised Grovesbut not to a young man Bittner with enough strength and power to grab the win after pulling off a photo-finish after a close victory. Curiously, Bittner, who ends his contract this year with dsm, achieved his third professional victory today and all of them on Spanish soil and all of them this year. Nice signing.
Final at full speed on a torrid stage after that Primoz Roglic He still keeps the red jersey of the leader that he will defend this Thursday on the road to Yunquera, the end of the sixth stage, and where we do not know if Luis Angel Maté was finally thrown in waters of the Guadalquivir to cool down and get rid of the heat as he half jokingly said before the peloton started rolling Master’s Fountain.
Source: La Verdad
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