Roglic’s amazing hand punch at La Vueltain a scenario that fits him like a glove. The Slovenian, triple winner of the Spanish round, showed himself in the expected final climb of the 13th stage in Port of Ancares (1st, 7.5 kilometers of climbing with an average slope of 9% and a maximum ramp of 15%) and shaved valuable time off the Australian Ben O’Connor, who started this new test at La Vuelta with a 3’16” margin over Roglic and after today saw the difference remain at 1’21”. And O’Connor can already feel the breath of ‘Rogla’ on the back of his neck. A good battle between the best cyclists of this edition of La Vuelta than the Canadian Michael Woods (37 years old) is easy to see from the finish line.
This is the Canadian champion corridor of Israeli teamthe fourth oldest rider to win a stage at La Vuelta at 37 years and 323 days, behind Manuel Martin in 1969, Alejandro Valverde in 2019 and Chris Horner in 2013. Third victory for Woods at La Vuelta after being the strongest of a great escape of 23 cyclists, among whom were quality men like Van Aert, Jay Vine, McNulty, Graves or Campenaertswhich will become disjointed as the kilometers pass, especially on the climb to the penultimate pass of the day (Lumeras (2nd, 6.6 km at 5.9%), na Van Aert crowned first to wrap the king of the mountain jersey around his body and seize it Adam Yates and whose descent took place ecold fall by Jay Vine and Brandon McNulty. The first hit the guardrail and the second went under it and fell down the slope, fortunately the bushes stopped falling. The two returned to the road punished, but in one piece.
UAE Team Emirates with three winning horses, the most solid one day yet is Marc Solerbut again the Catalan was on the verge of victory and took third place in 13 stages. He can’t Vilanova i la Geltrú counter the attack of Woods, who showed in a day how good he is in the mountains to achieve the second victory of the season.
The moment of truth
The group of the chosen is more than 17 minutes behind, in a group controlled by many kilometers Movistar Team, until they reached the entrance to Ancares, when Red Bull Bora He took a step forward and accelerated, setting a brutal climbing pace. I already said it Patxi Vila, director of Red Bull, In this last climb there is no hiding. That Roglic, if he’s okay, is in a promotion that fits him like a glove, like Plus either landa It is known, but it remains to be seen how it is going to act andChief O’Connorwho quickly ran out of teammates and who in the last 5 kilometers, which was at least in the double digits, raised his foot because he could not follow Roglic’s wheel.
Yes he tried Enric Mas for a few meters, but ‘Rogla’ broke loose and took off like a rocket. From less to Landa and Enric was first at the finish line. He head of Reb Bull He was 35″ ahead of Landa at the finish line, 45″ ahead of Carlos Rodríguez, 58″ ahead of Enric Mas and 1’54” over. Ben O’Connor. The general classification indicates that the top seven places maintain the same order, but the times indicate that, barring any surprises, the leadership of O’Connor’s La Vuelta will be days before it passes into the hands of Roglic, while the other two places on the podium are getting tighter. And there are still many, many Vueltas left.
Source: La Verdad
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