Those who know him closely guarantee this. Javier GuillenThe director of the Vuelta wouldn’t have done a sprint or a time trial race in the Spain round unless he could, if he could. He is one of the architects of this revolution in cycling, which has been experienced in recent years and is followed by everyone except the Giro, which has been the most boring this year. The Tour, which owns the Spanish stage among other races, took note of what was happening in Spain and therefore tried to eliminate as much as possible the mass arrivals and for example the climbing tourmaletto the sixth stage, something that was recently unthinkable.
Sprinters know they are a slowly endangered species. It won’t happen to them like the dinosaurs, because if you run a 21-stage race you can’t crush the favorites every day, and they’ll have to go through stages like this Monday to recover from the explosive start at Euskadi. In fact, the third stage did not leave the Basque Country, but traveled south to north and arrived in a beautiful—and Basque—city like very few. bayonetIt is famous for its ham and chocolate.
That’s where the sprinters marked in red, because the truth is, if they’re carrying, they shouldn’t be spending a lot of ink on their felt-tip pens to write down targets that they can show. If you’re generous, four sprints and a little more, elysian fieldswait for speed freaks.
And yet, the list of sprinters who signed up for the Tour is excellent because even though there are so few opportunities, no one wants to miss them, because good sprinters charge so much: Jasper Phillipsen (first goal scorer), Fabio Jakobsen, Phil Bauhaus, Mads Pedersen, Biniam Girmay, Caleb Ewan and two former singers who have retired at least this year Mark Cavendish And the saga of peter.
Victory at Bayonne philipsen, at a stage where there is nothing, with allowed and captured flight, ikurriñas in the air, as in southern Euskadi, and with sun and heat after two uncomfortable days due to intermittent rain. And the Belgian runner has a special plus. You can’t win a sprint without a good shooter, a shooter that keeps you off the air, takes you forward, leads you extremely quickly, much more on the Round. philipsen He has Mathieu van der Poel and it’s like if you’re a striker and Leo Messi to give you the final pass.
Van der Poel didn’t drop his rings as he was able to avoid being included in a cyclo-cross world champion sprint that won Milan-San Remo and Paris-Nice for some reason this year. But no, after two days of hiding in the Basque Country he decided to take action in the final sprint, forgetting the danger that such stages always posed, and decided to push his teammate. philipsen towards victory; come on, it’s like he’s put himself behind a motorcycle… but behind a MotoGP, not anyone else’s. He has won, and this Tuesday could repeat at a stage that will remind him of Nogaro’s arrival. Luis Ocana through the areas where he trains.