With the red jersey of the Italian Edward Affini (Jumbo Visma) and his Slovenian companion primoz roglic in third place as the real leader of the general, the Back to Spain complied with the transfer to its natural territory and returns to activity on Tuesday with a stage that will take place in Álava. A day between Vitoria Gasteiz and Laguardia, of 152.5 km in which the terrain will already begin to present some complications.
“The Vuelta begins,” says a large part of the peloton, although the differences have already been established between the favorites in the initial team time trial in Utrecht.
This is the fraction of this Tuesday
The day of undulating profile, faces the ports of Opakua (2nd, 5 km at 6.9) and Herrera (3rd, 7.3 km at 4.8), with a finish in Laguardia, which “itches” up. In the general classification, Affini is in charge, with the same time as his teammates Sam Oomen and Primoz Roglic. Among the candidates, the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz and the Spanish Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos), are 13 seconds behind, both within the top 10.
Sergio Higuita, one of the candidates to win this section, is the best Colombian overall, in 41st place, 41 seconds behind.
Follow the race here:
100km to finish: Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), James Shaw (EF Education-EasyPost), Alessandro De Marchi (Israel-Premier Tech), Jarras Drizners (Lotto Soudal), Ander Okamika (Burgos-BH) and Joan Bou (Euskaltel-Euskadi) are on the run . Lot at 2:25.
91km to finish: Joan Bou passed first through the Port of Opakua, second category.
80km to finish. The escapees take 2:29 off the lot, with which Alexey Lutsenko is the virtual leader of the race.
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