Burgos, August 14, 2021 – La stage 1 from the Return 2021, albeit just 7,1 km, risks writing an important verdict already: the first red jersey is Primoz Roglic, which evidently was not satisfied with the Olympic time trial title just won in Tokyo. The primacy of the Slovenian is written precisely by a test against time, with his rivals who are already lagging behind in the general classification: emblematic in particular the 27” left on the asphalt from Egan Bernal. The stage 2, who will lead the caravan from Caleruega a Burgos after 166,7 km, will offer sprinters a good test bed to immediately break the delay.
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The first big to take to the street is Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers), who scores an excellent score 8’52”: compared to the British a very applauded Fabio Aru (Team Qhubeka NextHash), at the last performance in his career, does worse than 17”. As always, he suffers in the tests against time Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious), which closes in +19” gives Yates, who is then overthrown by his teammate Dylan Van Baarle (8’43”), from which they pay 10 ” Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious) e Miguel Angel Lopez placeholder image (Movistar). The new best time is then signed by Alex Aranburu (Astana-Premier Tech), who writes an excellent 8’38”, worsened by 21” gives Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo), di 16” gives Pavel Sivakov (Ineos Grenadiers) and even of 30” from teammate Tom Pidcock. Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) records the same time as Ciccone, while Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) e Steven Kruijswijk (Jumbo-Visma) report respectively a +19” e +20”: excellent evidence of Romain Bardet (Team DSM) e Aleksandr Vlasov (Astana-Premier Tech), which close in +11” e +8” gives Aranburu, while disappointing expectations Hugh John Carthy (EF Education-Nippo) e Guillaume Martin (Cofidis), both a +27” from Spanish. Enric Mas (Movistar) gets worse by 12” the time of Aranburu, which is blown away when it goes down the street Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), who writes a 8’32” which earned him the stage victory, the red jersey and an advantage already of 27” its Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers).
Order of arrival stage 1 Vuelta 2021
1) Primoz Roglic (TJV) and 8’32 ”
2) Alex Aranburu Deba (APT) +6 ”
3) Jan Tratnik (TBV) +8 ”
4) Tom Scully (EFN) +10 ”
5) Josef Cerny (DQT) +10”
6) Dylan Van Baarle (IGD) +11”
7) Andrea Bagioli (DQT) +12 ”
8) Gregory Lawson Craddock (EFN) +13”
9) Michael Matthews (BEX) +14”
10) Aleksandr Vlasov (APT) +14 ”.
Vuelta 2021 general classification
1) Primoz Roglic (TJV) and 8’32 ”
2) Alex Aranburu Deba (APT) +6 ”
3) Jan Tratnik (TBV) +8 ”
4) Tom Scully (EFN) +10 ”
5) Josef Cerny (DQT) +10”
6) Dylan Van Baarle (IGD) +11”
7) Andrea Bagioli (DQT) +12 ”
8) Gregory Lawson Craddock (EFN) +13”
9) Michael Matthews (BEX) +14”
10) Aleksandr Vlasov (APT) +14 ”
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