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EsCiclismo.com · Road Competition · 02/11/2020
The Vuelta a Espaa 2020, already overcome the passage through Asturias that was expected to be decisive and that left things as they were before the great stages of La Farrapona and the colossal Angliru, now look at zaro and La Covatilla, key appointments for what remains career.
Being a third week with six stages altogether and a priori much less demanding than those of the first and second week, where the mountain was the main protagonist.
For the latter, everything will depend on the chrono towards the Mirador de Zaro, which will make the general clear. Which is hard to guess given the quirkiness of the quote. A time trial of 33.7 kilometers, with the first 31.9 practically flat and the final explosive climb to a wall of 1,810 meters at 14.34 percent slope and ramps of up to 30 percent.
A wall baptized in 2012 by Joaquim `Purito Rodrguez that possibly forces runners, at least those competing for the test, to change bikes at the start of the ascent.
With things clearer, and almost everything uncovered, the Vuelta, curiously, will take a few days of transition to La Covatilla, which on Saturday will decide the winner in a stage with six ports. The first of Primera, that of Portillo de las Batuecas (10.1 kilometers at 6.5 percent); and the last one the final climb from 11.4 to 7.1 and sections up to 12.
Between zaro and La Covatilla, a sloping finish in Ourense (1,600 meters at 4 percent), with the memory of what happened in Suances, the victory of Primoz Roglic and the three seconds taken by Richard Carapaz, who lost the red recovered again in Angliru.
Leaving Galicia, there are two stages that enter Castile in the middle of the mountains in which it will not be easy for sprinters to finish the sprint.
Because towards Puebla de Sanabria (Zamora) they will have to overcome five heights of Third in 230 kilometers. The last one, that of Palomelo, just 18 kilometers from the finish line.
And on the way to Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca), they await two even more substantial climbs. Like that of the First Port El Robledo that has in its last six kilometers not too steep with a couple of ramps at 12 and 10.5 percent. The top, 35 kilometers from the finish line.
Stages both more for tactical movements and for distance than for hand-to-hand among the best. That this remains for La Covatilla, depending on how things are in the zaro. Where is La Vuelta 2020 looking now?
Ramn Orosa
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