![]() The yellow jersey wearer took over and soon had the Bahrain Victorious rider in trouble. Pogačar was alert and was immediately on the wheel of the Spaniard. In the peloton there was an acceleration by second overall, Mikel Landa. At the front, the leading group was thinned out under the pressure of Teuns: only Mohoric, Rota and Zimmermann could follow him. Pogačar’s team reduced the lead of the nine riders to under 2 minutes at the foot of the Puerto de la Hoya de Charilla. UAE Team Emirates took responsibility for the chase in the peloton. Teuns and Rota were the best GC men at the front. Early escapees Mohoric, Juul-Jensen and Bais had with them Dylan Teuns (Israel-Premier Tech), Alan Jousseaume (TotalEnergies), Lorenzo Rota & Georg Zimmermann (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Axel Laurance (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Antonio Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan). The next group to escaped looked to have a better chance of success. With 100 kilometres to go, the peloton caught the break.īrent Van Moer (Lotto Dstny) and Geoffrey Soupe (TotalEnergies) then escaped for a while, but they also didn’t really get away. It led to a very fast start to the stage and 50 kilometres were covered in the first hour. INEOS Grenadiers, unlike the other GC teams, UAE and Bahrain, had no one in the break, tried to close the gap. In the final, the Puerto de la Hoya de Charilla had extremely steep sections and the final kilometre in Alcalá la Real was 11.5%.Ī strong leading group of twelve riders formed early: Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious), Joe Dombrowski (Astana Qazaqstan), Iván García Cortina & Nelson Oliveira (Movistar), Christopher Juul-Jensen (Jayco AlUla), Luis Ángel Maté (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Julen Amezqueta (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA ), Davide Bais (EOLO-Kometa), Frederik Frison (Lotto Dstny), Aaron Van Poucke & Alex Colman (Flanders-Baloise), Alessandro Covi (UAE Team Emirates), who won last year in Alcalá la Real. Thursday’s stage had less climbing, but was by no means easy. ![]()
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