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EFE · Road Competition · 04/11/2020
Chris Froome, winner of seven major stage races, announced this Wednesday that his team, the Ineos Grenadier, and its leader, the Ecuadorian, Richard Carapaz, second overall, will look for opportunities in the last stages of La Vuelta “to regain their status. lead “lost on Tuesday in the time trial ending at the Mirador de Zaro.
“We are going to be on the lookout for opportunities to try to regain the lead,” commented the confident British rider on the options of a Carapaz who he believes “had a fantastic time trial” on Tuesday.
“I think Richard did a fantastic time trial because you have to remember that he is not a time trial like Roglic. So losing less than a minute was a fantastic result,” considered the Kenyan-born cyclist.
Given the situation in which the race has been, with Carapaz only 39 seconds behind leader Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) and only 9 seconds over third Hugh Carthy (Education First), Froome assumes that he and his team force them to to do “a lot of work in the last days” of the race, the stages that remain until Sunday in Madrid.
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