A Movistar Arreón conjugated with ineos was enough to break down to the platoon, punished by the rhythm and, above all, for a side wind that ended up forming a definitive fan in the final stretch of the stage. Jauja for the sprinters that were standing in the small leading group; And Eden for Brennan, who clarified that his age (19 years) is not at odds with success, that his is not a coincidence, which is already two stages that he takes. It was also a day in which when achieving a second bonus in a sprint intermediate.
For the orography and logistics, located Paüls, starting point of the day, between narrow roads and dotted with olive trees, the cyclists’ coach had to assemble the skirts of the town, a short half a kilometer. But to spend the control of signatures, they had to look up, a full -fledged warming. Ida, the majority snorted, plus a rezone than anything else, in the same way as to return their smiles and unleashed, to the point that from the organization they asked them with their hands that would lower watts, it was not that there was an accident before starting. It was the recreation of the cyclists, and with the meeting of team made, while the career directors stirred, worried about a bump that was 400 meters of finish – the career address agreed to shorten the sprint so as not to pass through there – and, above all, because of the strong wind that whipped. “This will be the whole day. It is another cycling because we will have to be very aware of the fans. We cannot go the work done so far by a windfire,” explained one of them, that even to serve the media he called for them to enter the team of the team before doing so outdoors. to the gale for the lands of the Ebro Delta. And they were decisive.
He did not want to engage his goodbye to the first in persecutory tangles, benevolent with those who wanted their share of prominence and perhaps, if luck and legs accompanied them, a permegated triumph with the escape, something unheard of in this volta. There they left Armirail (AG2R), those who fight for the jersey of the mountain -the first retained -accompanied by five other runners. His advantage, in any case, was never relevant, just two minutes because teams with sprinters They did not want the party to be watered. A sustained effort for the escapes that could not prolong, since six of them were trapped with 50 kilometers to cover, and only with Paleni (FDJ) capable of enduring the pulse. A known and sad end story, phagocyted by the platoon with 25 kilometers to cover. A whole world.
Disordered by the wind, nerves and agitation was permanently given in the platoon, all the teams occupied in taking front positions so as not to fall into the fan trap. Running from behind, or even going to look for drums for the team, meant danger. Rares that did not affect him, the fourth career of the course. And so he clarified in the last sprint Intermediate, rogue to get between the shuttle that had, skilled to start in time and, gazuza pedaling, put the bike in third position. It earned him a second of bonus, the right thing to unpack with the Slovenian and dress again the jersey of leader with two stages to play.
But the wind did not stop and neither did the Movistar, Arreones at the head of the multicolored snake that ended up cutting it. They suffered in their flesh Lenny Martínez and Mikel Landa, fourth and fifth classified, off -hook when there were 20 kilometers, a morrocotudo scare of which they were able to recover, no matter how much Enric Mas, third in the Volta, waspposted and aware of what happened, tried to throw to expand the hole. But the cut was made and the sprint It would be reduced. The ineos team took the responsibility of tightening the step, fused at the Launce toe speed. But he had a lot of competitiveness to his flanks, such as Grosso, Van Den Berg, Strong and Bittner. Also, of course,, bike side by side, pedaling of fire, sprint immeasurable that earned him to, left over as a wheel, join and take out his fist. A triumph that explains that Brennan has very little child and much of the future.
