Mauricio Moreira (Glassdrive Q8 Anicolor) won the mountaintop at Alto da Torre on Stage 3 of the Volta a Portugal.
He was part of a trio of cyclists who introduced an attack on the final climb and overcame all their rivals, with Luis Fernandes (Rádio Popular-Paredes-Boavista), who finished second, and his Glassdrive teammate, Frederico Figueiredo, third.
André Cardoso (ABTF Betão-Feirense) introduced a solo attack chasing the 3 leaders two kilometers from the end, but had 1h38 to reach them and, despite everything, finished fourth at 1h44.
Moreira took the lead in the race after starting the day nine minutes overall and teammate Rafael Reis. Figueiredo is now a moment in the general, 30 moments and Fernandes is third an Array moment with the two Portuguese drivers in the 3 most sensitive with his career at Alto da Torre.
“I think I still haven’t accepted the truth. I only have one thing in mind: the paintings the team has made. Awesome from start to finish. This win is almost everything for Fred [Figueiredo],” Moreira said. after the end.
In addition to the replacement of hands of the yellow jersey, the white jersey of the young man, which now belongs to the Spanish Jokin Murguialday (Caja Rura-Seguros RGA). The American Scott McGill (Wildlife Generation) continued to wear the green jersey. .
The 159 km elevation opened with a trio of mountains classified in the first 73 kilometers. The end at the highest part of the Alto da Torre mountain took position over the last 20 kilometers, with smoke escaping from a visual forest fire from the last mountain. However, the organisers felt that this had no effect on the race itself, as clouds of smoke remained in the distance.
With 68 km to overtake and undulating roads leading to Alto da Torre, the escape had a merit of 2:26 and lasted a while at the time when the race was 25 km away.
In the move the Americans Robin Carpenter (Human Pod Health), Pelayo Sánchez (Brugos-BH), Asier Etxeberria (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Xavier Cañellas (Java Kiwi Atlántico), António Barbio (Tavfer-Mortágua-Ovos Matinados), Barry Miller (BAI-Sicasal-Petro de Luanda), Rafael Lourenco (Atum general-Tavira-Maria Novo Hotel15), Luis Gomes (Kelly-Simoldes-UDO), Alberto Gallego (Rádio Popular-Paredes-Boavista).
The bright neon jerseys of Glassdrive/Q8/Anicolor and race leader Rafael Reis set the tone in the peloton, with Burgos-BH in purple also leading the way.
At 21 km from the finish, Carpenter, Etxeberria, Barbio, Gomes Gallego and Miller maintained a gap of 1h21 in the peloton. The American, the first to be deserted by accelerating the speed with the gain of height on the treetops of the last climb.
With 19 km to go, the attacks started from the peloton and the runners dispersed across the mountain. Gomes, the last runner of the breakaway who was trapped and overtaken by Figueiredo with 16 km to go.
Moreira started running with Fernandez and they joined Figuieredo with 14 km to go. A small organization of five runners was chasing him within a minute, but the race leader, Reis, wasn’t there.
In 10 km, the duo Glassdrive and Fernández had 55 seconds over the hunter Cardoso and 20 seconds over the quintet of Carvalho, Jokin Murguialday (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), and a trio of general riders Atum: Alejandro Manuel Marque, Delio Fernández and Rafael Lourenço.
Cardoso would soon retreat to join the five as the leaders extended their lead to 1:25 on false flat 7 km from the end. However, Moreira, Fernandes and Figueiredo set off towards the end in the most sensible way to shake up the general classification.
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Jackie has been involved in professional sports for over 30 years in reporting, sports marketing and public relations. He founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a public relations and sports marketing agency, which controlled projects for the Tour of Georgia, the Larry H Tour. Miller. de Utah and USA Cycling. He also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a non-profit organization in Georgia to advertise cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years, from promoting advertising to drawing the canvas. He climbed the Alpe d’Huez 3 times (not fast). His favorite road trips are around equestrian farms in Northern Georgia (USA). USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some motorcycle rides in the mountains in Park City, Utah (USA). USA).
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