The Slovenian Primoz Roglic started Itzulia 2024 dressing as a leader and showing off in the initial 10 km time trial in Irún. Furthermore, Roglic has taken a clear advantage over its rivals, especially the other two big favorites Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard, whom he surpassed by 11 and 15 seconds, respectively.

Roglic (Bora-hansgrohe), Evenepoel (Soudal Quick Step) and Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a bike), like most of the important riders in the race, started the time trial in the first turns to avoid encountering rain if They did it in the end.

So in the first hour of this first stage, practically everything important about a technical route at the beginning was said, with the climb to Olaberria (1.7 km at 5.2% gradient), Third, halfway (km 4.4) and a short final slope at 10%.

Roglic has completed it in 12 minutes and 34 seconds and he made a mistake looking for the goal in the final stretch and you have lost some very valuable seconds by having to rectify on the road.

He also lost a few seconds Evenepoelin your case to fall as soon as you leave, Therefore, the one with the worst feelings in this first challenge has been Vingegaard, winner in 2023.

Jon Izagirre He was tenth, with a time 21 seconds faster than Roglic, and Pello Bilbao sixteenth, with 25 seconds more than the Slovenian.

STAGE AND GENERAL

1 – ROGLIC Primož (BORA) 0:12:34

2 – VINE Jay (UAE) +0:07

3 – SKJELMOSE Mattias (Lidl) +0:10

4 – EVENEPOEL Remco (Soudal) +0:11

5 – VINGEGAARD ​​Jonas (Visma) +0:15

6 – VAUQUELIN Kévin (Arkéa) +0:16

7 – AYUSO Juan (UAE) (Emirates) mt

8 – SCHACHMANN Maximilian (BORA) mt

9 – HAYTER Ethan (INEOS) +0:19

10 – IZAGIRRE Ion (Cofidis) +0:21

16 – BILBAO Pello (Bahrain-Victorius) +0:25

Source: Eitb

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