There is less, only one stage, and the return begins to define their positions, those that seem blurred at the beginning, but are focusing on the passing of the days. No one expected too much from the day for Palencia territory ,. Transition, they are called days like Friday, although the runners circulate more than 42 kilometers per hour, with hurry to arrive in Baltanás, as if the last days they wanted to hurry quickly.
The stage from Becerril de Campos, the land of, the athlete who survived the sports underdevelopment of the Spain of the sixties, to reach three silver in the Cross World Cup, was Third in the Sprint that Hennie Kuiper won, a Dutch, like Marianne Vos, the queen of arriving in the return; Another victory, the second, a green jersey of regularity already insured.
The stage was built on the skirmishes that led to the escape of the day, with 19 runners, 45 kilometers after the exit. These adventures usually reassure the platoon, at least at the beginning, but determined to arrive, the components of the head group reached the minute of difference and that launched an alarm signal on the teams that, at first, were willing to let it go, but not so much as to endanger as many things as those that are still at stake. So, between those in front they were losing grapes of the cluster, and those from behind raised the rhythm, the escape barely reached 35 kilometers of development, and was diluted with many still to go.
There were more attempts between the Palencia moors, where the wind that had been announced did not blow and they all feared. “They were long roads, straight and open, without much wind,” Marianne Vos confirmed, “but with enough wind to hinder it, mainly wind against. It was not ideal for the getaway.” The wind turbine mills that invade the hills, but the energy that occurred at the heights of those white colossi that seem about to take off, was not transmitted to the ground, because at ground level it was barely felt.
With less kilometers to go, they began to be answered by the companions of you in the visma, knowing the power of their boss of rows. When the Movistar broker, Lianne Lippert, with her long braid to the wind, took advantage of one of the last repeches near Baltanás, to launch a surprise attack, it was Marianne Vos herself who went out to her wheel, to which the leader Vollering and Van Den Brenggen adhered. For a moment the squad broke, but immediately calm came. Vos put the visma in the lead, and in the streets of the town of the 400 warehouses excavated as terraces in the hills, the stage was decided when Mischa Bredwold threw himself towards the goal and you exceeded it in the last meters, just half a tubular, to continue dressed in green and add another partial victory in the return.
Behind, again used Ostolaza, ninth on arrival, he suitable for a mountain stage than a packaging, and that remains eighth in the general, in the absence of the last day that begins in La Robla, in times flourishing knot of rail communications, and final La Colladiella and Cotobello first. and dedicate their victory to those who suffer from their mental health. “I know that I am very strong head. Thanks to my mentality, I can gain beautiful races,” he says, “but some people, his mentality, his brain, are not too strong and are on a bad way, and have many mental health problems, and remains a huge problem in this world.”
