Starting with the premise that scoring is always difficult, when La Vuelta 2024 ends It is time to review, with the best intentions, the performance of the cyclists, the highlights of 79th edition of the Spanish round.
1
OUTSTANDING
THE LAW OF PRIMOZ ROGLIC
The great favorite did not disappoint and Roglic, at 34 years old, won with authority to add his fourth victory at La Vuelta. He controlled the race and his rivals, had a great team by his side, won three stages and wore the red jersey in five, to win with the second biggest margin of his four wins.
2
NOTABLE HIGH
BEN O’CONNOR QUALITY LEAP
La Vuelta feels good. Like Kuss, he took advantage of a stage to wear red and defended himself like a champion for 13 days, until Roglic and his teammates defeated him. The Vuelta can mark the before and after of his career, because so far his ceiling in a grand tour is 4th place (Giro’24 and Tour’21)
3
NOTABLE HIGH
THE KERN PHARMA TEAM HAS NO ENDURANCE SUCCESS
Never has there been an average team, invited to La Vuelta, that has achieved what they have: winning three stages – Pablo Castrillo (2) and a Urko Berrade – and being the star almost every day, showing great motivation and always running offensively, performing better. than the higher category groups who saw little. You have to applaud them
4
STUPIDITY
MARC SOLER, THE HERO
The Catalan in this Vuelta is something to take his hat off to, it is not for nothing that he has been chosen as the most defensive cyclist of the whole race. He entered all the escapes he could, and because there was nothing else, he gave everything for his team, fought in the mountains until the end and embraced the glory in Lagos de Covadonga. Hats off
5
STUPIDITY
VAN AERT IS FROM ANOTHER PLANET
He did not finish La Vuelta after a serious fall, another in a failed year, but until that accident the Belgian, making his debut in the race, was ten. He led regularly and in the mountains, winning three stages and coming second twice. Few debuts can be so good
6
GOOD
THE NEW ENRIC MAS
Many eyes are on the Movistar Team leader, after a poor Tour and his and the team’s demands at La Vuelta. It was true that he was more feisty than usual, but he was guilty of going too far back and not forward, which prevented him from flying higher. The best Mas signed 3rd after three seconds
This is just one of the few notes that we put this time after the 79th edition of La Vuelta, where we must applaud the performance of Richard Carapazthe winning nose of Kaden Groves and of Jay Vine in the mountains – both Australians and especially the latter, one of the cyclists who had the worst of the many and serious accidents in Itzulia -, the German Florian Lipowitz or the Catalan boy Roger Adriàone of the main characters in the success of Primoz Roglic.
Source: La Verdad
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