Never say Never. Never consider Annemiek van Vleuten to be defeated. like some kind cid turned into Dutch and a woman; a natural phenomenon, as if this Sunday were the summit of the Covadonga Lakes, where all the runners rise to finish the first women’s Tour and the Movistar boss in a red jersey will come half volleringIn the most famous of the Asturian peaks, the penultimate stage, which should only be the introductory part of the sentence, is more than impressive in an exhibition.

40 years old and this is closing the bike at the end of 2023. By now her fall had begun, her chances of winning the spring classics seemed cut off, and things weren’t going her way. However, Van Vleuten had not lost his valor and his desire to keep winning everything. Vollering that if he had impressed and been the sole judge of the classic weekly races, the three great women’s races were his own, and that he would have worn the number one bib on the Tour for some reason, and wore it with a desire to wear yellow. Save the tourmalet and suit for the last try in the bike city of Pau.

Van Vleuten pulled the ax this Saturday. It had been touched but not submerged the first time it came to the top of the Vuelta. seemed to beat Vollering It was an impossible mission and only 5 seconds remained on the slope of Peñas Llanas’s Segovian gaze.

Also on the road to Laredo, in the always fragile region of Cantabria, between the ‘fans’ (cut by the wind) and an attack 38 kilometers from the finish line, van vleuten poked Vollering leave in italian company Gaia Real. Back, Vollering He re-armed his team to minimize losses in the final stage of the stage and to cut a time loss to 1.04 minutes that could have definitively doomed the Spanish round.

Italian your realmaybe it was too much behind the wheel of Van Vleuten, he took the sixth stage win and the Vuelta fell into the hands of the Movistar leader who had a 1.11 minute advantage over Movistar. Volleringwith some Lakes, the same as those conquered 40 years ago Marino Lejarreta They will be crowned by a professional runner for the first time, as they make their first summit with a number one on their back.