Richard Carapaz won stage 12 of the Vuelta a España 2022, disputed this Thursday between Salobreña and Peñas Blancas. Estepona, 192 kilometers long, in which Remco Evenepoel defended the lead and Miguel Angel Lopez had an outstanding fraction.
The day did not start well. The positives for covid-19 of the Colombian were reported Santiago Buitrago and the dutch Boy Van Poppelwho were forced to leave.
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Peñas Blancas is an important port. Very long, 19 kilometers; demanding, with an average gradient of 6.7 percent; and ramps in its first half of up to 15 percent. Also at the end it has a point at 14.
As always there was a fight at the beginning for the breakaway and in the end 32 cyclists achieved it, among them: Teunissen, Champoussin, Battistella, Alexey Lutsenko, Wilco Keldermann, Richard CarapazJhonatan Caicedo, Jay Bevin, Goldstein, Hagen, Nelson Oliveira, JJ Rojas, Craddock, Marc Soler, Díaz Gallego, Canal, Iturria, among others.
The difference came to exceed 10 minutes, while the leader’s group was calm.
Remco’s fall
However, with 45 km to go, Evenepoel skidded into a corner, fell, changed bikes and chased again.
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Later, the leader entered a group that waited for him, he did not increase the difference for the Belgian to be part of it again.
With 15 km to go, the battle began in the group in front, while behind the Jumbo VismaSeeing Evenepoel’s wounds, he stepped up.
Carapaz was the one who fought the most in front and behind Evenepoel was calm, although holding the strong pace of the Jumbo Visma.
Élie Gesbert rushed forward. The leading batch comes flying. he attacked Enrique More, about 6 km from the finish. Remco and Miguel Angel Lopez they went to their wheel. primoz roglic It comes to them, the same as Carlos Rodríguez.
2 km from the finish line, Carapaz attacked. he went solo. joao almeida loses ground and López is still seventh overall.
The Ecuadorian wins the stage, Evenepóel remains the leader and López rises in the general classification.
This Friday, stage 13, Ronda and Montillad, 168 km, on flat terrain.
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