Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) had the intuition that the sixth stage of 79th Tour of Spain at the end in Yunquera (Málaga) it was a good chance for a breakaway but he was surprised that some teams underestimated the possibilities of the new leader, the Australian Ben O’Connor (Decathlon-AG2R).
“Some teams underestimated O’Connor, and now he has the reward of a red jersey,” he said after climbing to the podium to wear the green jersey that identifies the leader of the points classification for another day.
“Everyone was surprised that O’Connor got such an advantage at the finish line, but seeing the course, very technical, with a lot of curves … you realize that being the leader of the pack is not so easy to control,” analyzed he. .
“There was a great fight until the escape. At some point, I thought it would be a good opportunity to try to get in. A big group formed before the first pass, and I felt that the race was going to explode again there,” he explained about the build-up of the first part.
After forming the leading group, their analysis indicated that from then on the break was for “more climbers” and I was about “50% ready to find out if this was my chance. There were very strong runners in ahead, so It is ‘t.”
Source: La Verdad
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