the Tour of Spain presents this Friday an important stage, with six mountain passes, the last of them at the finish line, to further clarify the overall classification.
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The fraction is carried out between Gandia i Balcony of Alicante, With two third mountain prizes, two second and two first prizes, the last of them at the finish line.
Primoz Roglic defends the lead, against the ambush of Eric Mas and Colombians Migue Angel Lopez i Egan Bernal.
The stage has already started and the first escape attempts are presented.
the Colombian Diego Camargo is protagonist, goes in the getaway to the band of Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto Soudal), Thymen Arensman, Chris Hamilton i Michael Storer (DSM Team) and Geoffrey Bouchard (Ag2r-Citroën team).
The difference with the batch is 1 min 15 s.
More runners join the lead, come: Sepp Kuss, Jay Vine, Alex Aranburu, Gorka Izagirre, Jack Haig, Felix Grossschartner, Jonathan Lastra, Fernando Barcelo, Jesus Herrada, Pavel Sivakov, Andreas Kron, Steff Cras, Harm Vanhoucke , Nelson Oliveira, Carlos Verona, Andrei Zeits, Romain Bardet, Thymen Arensman, Chris Hamilton, Michael Storer, Martijn Tusveld, Kenny Elissonde, who is a partial leader, Jan Polanc and Matteo Trentin.
The difference over the large batch is 1 min 58 s.
Hugh Carthy, third in last year’s Tour, he left the competition. The mountain is the queen today in the race.
43 km from the finish line, in a mountain prize, they attack Richard Carapaz, Alejandro Valverde i Adam Yates.
Valverde fell. His bike skidded in a bend.
‘Superman’ López arrives in the small group of Carapaz. Roglic went for them and reached out to them.
Valverde decides to continue racing, after the hard blow in the fall. However, the Spanish runner dropped out of the race.
The pointers are Storer, Sivakov and Craddock, they go ahead, the chasing group comes to 52 if Roglic’s batch at 4:41. Polanc is a virtual leader.
Several changes in the stage. 8.4 km from the finish line, Sivakov and Craddock were the leaders. Movistar was seizing the top of the leading lot.
The leader is Michael Storer, goes for the stage victory.
Yachts attacked in the leading batch. Roglic comes out for him. Egan is mpeha, with Mas, Lopez and Vlasov suffering back.
Strorer won the stage. Lopez attacks in the group.
Roglic, Yates, Mas, López and Egan, the members of the leading group.
There were no differences between the best overall.
See you tomorrow.