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Hello and welcome to our policy of the ninth stage of the Vuelta a España.
The moment of consecutive peaks ends, today’s level ends at Les Praeres, a short but exceptionally steep climb that averages 12. 5% with ramps of up to 24%. Unlike yesterday, the ascent begins much later in the level, with a mountain 2 almost 50 kilometers. Then there is a little respite with 4 more rises in the last two-thirds of the level.
Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) suffered a blow at night with the abandonment of his right arm Sepp Kuss due to a fever. Archrival Remco Evenepoel (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) also lost a key lieutenant in Pieter Serry who left this morning. the race after a COVID-19 test. Bahrain Victorious announced that Wout Poels had also been tested for the virus, raising the peloton to 166 riders.
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Roglič and Evenepoel, along with Mas, proved to be the most powerful of the overall favourites yesterday, completing in combination 1:20 behind level winner Jay Vine.
Vine took an impressive victory and the King of the Mountains jersey, in what is fitting a revolutionary Grand Tour for the Australian. You can keep all the action here.
The riders are all covered at the start, in a position to start the stage.
Today the regatta starts in Villaviciosa where the runners navigate through the impartial area.
Although Evenepoel still wears the red and white jerseys, the green and polka dot jerseys now have new users. Mads Pedersen won the intermediate race and turned green, while Vine proves to be a worthy mountain king.
#LaVuelta22 Let’s go king! ? August pic. twitter. com/H2Ew0GbfyO28, 2022
The platoon finished the neutralized segment and the attacks began immediately.
As QuickStep crossed the track, more attacks came. The organization of 4 in front is Davide Villella (Cofidis), Luis Ángel Maté (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Jetse Bol (Burgos-BH) and Thomas de Gendt (Lotto-Soudal).
This injection of pace stretched the platoon from which the attacks are still continuing. Vine is in the crosshairs and scored heavily through Julian Alaphilippe, who refuses to let the two-time level winner slip away.
Mads Pedersen now moves to the front in his exclusive green jersey to spot potential escape opportunities.
Alaphilippe continues in every movement and, the peloton is stretched in a long row, no rider has yet been able to sign up for the breakaway in front.
EF Education-EasyPost put Julius van den Berg in the lead as he tried to climb the breakaway, the hole was reduced to 24 seconds.
Samuele Battistella (Astana Qazaqstan), Alessandro De Marchi (Israel Premier Tech), Maxim Van Gils (Lotto Soudal) and Xandro Meurisse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) are the riders who have joined the lead of the race.
Meurisse and Bou were trapped in the platoon.
Ten runners have a way up and their gap increases to 35 seconds.
The breakaway reached the first climb of the day – the Alto del Torno of 7. 6 km at 6% – while a counterattack starring Marc Soler was shaping up between the peloton and the breakaway.
QuickStep-AlphaVinyl has become the most sensible of the package in an attempt to repair some form of order.
Due to the fast start, the peloton is already very small. Even João Almeida was left behind, according to the Vuelta’s official website.
Today, the race ends at Les Praeres for the first time since Simon Yates won there in 2018, regaining the red jersey he kept until the end in Madrid.
?The last time La Vuelta visited Les Praeres. . . ? The time La Vuelta ended in Les Praeres. . . #LaVuelta22 pic. twitter. com/MPu6RvjZpF28 August 2022
Henri Vandenabeele of the DSM team withdrew from the race.
Louis Meintjes raises his arms to the sky and wins level 9!
Battistella is the next to cross the line, one minute Meintjes to take the position for the moment in this year’s race.
Evenepoel crossed the finish line, 1h32 from the winner of the level. He imprinted his authority on today’s race.
In the end, Evenepoel won 34 seconds over Ayuso, 44 seconds over Mas, 46 seconds over Rodriguez and seconds over Roglič. He now has a 1:12 lead overall.
Evenepoel enters the half-time with a 1:12 lead over Second-placed Mas. Roglič is 3rd at 1:53 with Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos-Grenadiers) fourth at 2:33. Ayuso completes the five most sensible at 2:36.
“It’s something special, I think he still wants time to soak. In fact, I’ve never stood on the podium in a WorldTour race, unless it’s for team qualifying, so that was one of my main goals before I stopped my race. “Louis Meintjes said at the end.
“The last few days in the mountain finals, I’m just not fast enough to be at the level of the guys in the general. So if I don’t get a result that way, the most productive thing is to go on the run. It worked Today I was very lucky, my team controlled well and I tried once and chose the right getaway, so it was smart teamwork.
It was quite a challenging day and they made me work a little harder, finish the hole and run up, so I knew I was also spending more power than the top guys, so I wasn’t sure I had the maximum productive legs. I knew it was actually complicated and it didn’t matter if you followed the breakaway or not, it was just a time trial until the end.
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