Simon Yates won for the second time at Ordizia, with Juan Ayuso 4th

The British cyclist BikeExchange Simon Yates He won this Monday by winning at Grand Prix of Villafranca-Classic Test of Ordiziawhere he already won in 2017, after an exhibition in the last kilometers when attacking the last port.

Yates had a clear roadmap, exhausting himself as much as possible and, if all the breakaways were aborted and the last kilometers were reached as a group, the attack on the final peak, where he avoided the watching over all his competitors to be crowned within a 20 second margin which the English runner maintained until the finish line.

The heat gave the runners a break, it was 24 degrees, 10 lower than the day before, but the humidity and an orography with seven high climbs advised the peloton to take a conservative attitude in the first kilometers of this test.

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Much is expected from the big names that match the best participation in the history of this centennial classic, but stars like Vincenzo Nibali, Rui Costa or Izaguirre are well hidden in the peloton, leaving the shine to those who are not less common rider.

The test followed the planned and usual script in recent editions, with breakaway attempts in the first section that crystallized in a breakaway of five runners, which would sign advantages of more than two minutes in a peloton led by Astana to avoid playing the game This small group won.

Julen Irizar, the Venezuelan Edwin Torres, David Martin, Marco Jurado and the Canadian Alexander Cataford They worked together to make the escape, although 70 kilometers from the end they kept only a minute and a half, the profit that seemed too small for their interests.

Irizar fell and was dragged Cataford in its impact on the ground, so that the escape is left with only three riders pressing and maintaining the distances in a peloton that established the order with 50 kilometers to go, with three demanding climbs and everything to decide.

A second important escape was made before the final lap of the circuit, with John Ayuso, still Simon Yate which is already warning and in Italian Batistellawhich led to the three most powerful teams in this classic –UAE, Bikexchange and Astana– They will stop working behind because they have their own interests in the leader of the race, even if the advanced ones will be chased twenty-nine kilometers from the finish line.

The last act of this classic brought the exhibition of the former winner of the Vuelta a España, a Simon Yate with an outstanding attack repulsed ok, commitment of the Spanish youth, from the dream of fighting for victory.

Yates repeated the strategy of 2017, which paid off, as he gained some valuable seconds at the top of the final stop of abalzisketa and threw everything at the finish line of ordizia, where he raised his arms alone to claim a well-deserved victory.