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EFE · Road Competition · 11/07/2020
With 3 kilometers to go to cross the finish line of the Alto de La Covatilla, Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadier) launched the rocket to win the 75th edition of the Tour of Spain and lost. He could not achieve his goal.
In a fight that was supposed to be face to face between `the Carch locomotive and the Slovenian Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), the formation that left the carchense last year slamming the door, the Movistar.
By forces to move the greatest number of watts possible in the last decisive kilometers of the Spanish race, the Ecuadorian was clearly superior to the ex-ski jumper. But in what was supposed to be an individual heads-up, the telephone training ended up appearing to lend a hand, no one to clarify whether voluntary or involuntary, to the leader.
The Spanish Enric Ms had no options to improve his fifth position, despite the fact that the Irish Dan Martin (Israel) had yielded, but together with Marc Soler he pulled Roglic to look for an uncertain fruit of his work.
It is likely that the storm that broke out in the Salinas de Torrevieja more than a year ago, the day Movistar closed the registrations in La Vuelta 2019 by leaving the winner of that year of the Giro out of the race, has had its consequences. consequences this November 7, 2020.
The orders that came to Ms and Soler through the earpiece seemed aimed more at not allowing Carapaz to win than at fighting for a fifth position that the Mallorcan himself had denied.
“Doing fifth, sixth or tenth is not going to change anything,” the Spaniard had said a day before, but at the distance he moved he did not seem to have any options to advance positions, which was what he considered “to be a difference.”
Ms has denied the collaboration with Roglic because “we are going to make our career” and has added an almost enigmatic “I have turned and I have seen the wheel of Roglic”.
For his part, the Carchense has not wanted to delve into the wound and has simply justified it by pointing out that “everyone seeks their interests. They will have their interests and I have no comment.”
To win his second consecutive “ red ” Roglic has ended up using his secret weapon, the bonuses, that although throughout La Vuelta they have only served to keep his rivals at a greater distance, they are finally the ones that have served to decant in his favor for 24 seconds the final victory.
Carapaz has surpassed, it is true that by a small margin, the Central European in three of the great finals at the top of this edition, those of the winter season of Formigal, on the first Sunday of the race; the Asturian LAngliru, on the second Sunday; and east of La Covatilla.
Roglic only wanted to fly over the wall of the Mirador de Zaro, while all his opponents crashed into it, to mark the differences necessary to achieve La Vuelta.
Carapaz has claimed himself as the leader of the almighty Ineos Grenadier for the 2021 season, although the British in the Return to Spain They have once again paid dearly for their phlegm and arrogance. They have lacked equipment to stand up to a very powerful Jumbo Visma that has cloned itself in his image and likeness.
Since they broke in in 2011 with Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins, in a Vuelta that ended up winning due to the positive of the Spanish Juanjo Cobo, they have only been able to win it one year in 2017, in addition to having clearly lost another in the well-known stage of Formigal and the attack of Alberto Contador a year before.
The Kenyan of British origin’s determination to win La Vuelta has outweighed the contribution of the team led by Sir Dave Brailsford and his hosts to do so.
Carapaz has already claimed himself as a leader, now he needs to know whether to count on the specific weight to count the precise weapons to fight again for the Giro or La Vuelta, because in the order of priorities of Ineos the only really fundamental thing is the Tour de France.
Yes Luis Sorolla
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