Euskaraz irakurri: Roglicek bereganatu du garaipena Cazorlan, Landa hirugarren izan da eta O’Connorrek leadertzari eutsi dio

Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) has claimed victory in the eighth stage of the Vuelta a España. Ben O’Connor (Decathlon-AG2R-La Mondiale) remains in the leadbut Roglic has eaten up 39 seconds.

At the start a breakaway group of 40 riders formed and then only five riders pushed forward: Xandro Meurisse (Intermarché-Wanty), Sven Erik Bystrom (Groupama-FDJ), Simon Guglielmi (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) and Ibon Ruiz (Kern Pharma Team). However, the pace of the peloton was high and the breakaway was neutralised.

Although the main peloton was not willing to give any room for breakaways to form, there were riders who continued to push forward and in the end, the breakaway of the day was formed with the following protagonists: Oier Lazkano (Movistar)Ion Izagirre, Harold Tejada (Astana-Qazaqstan), Mauro Schmid (Jayco-AlUla), Gijs Leemreize (DSM-firmenich-PostNL), Luca Vergallito (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Sam Oomen (Lidl-Trek) and Mathis Le Berre ( Arkéa-B&B Hotels).

The group of eight riders who rode at the front of the race enjoyed an advantage of more than four minutes over the peloton. On the climb to Puerto del Mirador de Las Palomas, Leemreize fell behind.

The breakaway group broke up 14 kilometres from the finish, at which point Lazkano has attacked; along with the Basque, hTejada and Vergallito have been pulled forwardThe trio has reached the start of the climb to the Sierra de Cazorla with a lead of one minute and 12 seconds over the peloton.

Tejada attacked as soon as he started to climb the last mountainand Lazkano has held onVergallito has fallen behind, but has managed to join his two escape companions.

In the peloton, Primoz Roglic has opened fire among the favourites to win the Vuelta. Before, it has been Joao Almeida (UAE Emirates) is the one who has been cut off. Later, Roglic has made another change of paceThe Slovenian’s attacks have caused The adventure of the getaway trio is over.

Enric Mas (Movistar) has held off Roglicand The stage victory was decided between the two of them. In the duel between the Slovenian and the Spanish Roglic has prevailed. Mas was second and Mikel Landa (Soudal Quick Step) third14 seconds behind the winner. The leader O’Connor came in 39 seconds behind the stage winner.

Therefore, Ben O’Connor takes first place in the general classification; Primoz Roglic is second, three minutes and 49 seconds behind the leaderand Enric Mas third at four minutes and 31 seconds. Mikel Landa is fifth, five minutes and 13 seconds behind Roglic.

Stage 8 classification:

1 – ROGLIC Primož (Red Bull) 3:38:34
2 – MORE Enric (Movistar) mt
3 – LANDA Mikel (Soudal) +0:14
4 – TIBERI Antonio (Bahrain) +0:17
5 – SKJELMOSE Mattias (Lidl) +0:21
6 – RODRIGUEZ Carlos (INEOS) mt
7 – TEJADA Harold (Astana) +0:24
8 – DUNBAR Eddie (Jayco) +0:26
9 – VAN EETVELT Lennert (Lotto) +0:29
10 – HAIG Jack (Bahrain) mt

Overall classification:

1 – O’CONNOR Ben (Decathlon) 31:23:27
2 – ROGLIC Primož (Red Bull) +3:49
3 – MAS Enric (Movistar) +4:31
4 – TIBERI Antonio (Bahrain) +5:00
5 – LANDA Mikel (Soudal) +5:13
6 – VAN EETVELT Lennert (Lotto) +5:15
7 – RODRÍGUEZ Cristián (Arkéa) +5:19
8 – SKJELMOSE Mattias (Lidl) +5:24
9 – LIPOWITZ Florian (Red Bull) +5:25
10 – GALL Felix (Decathlon) +5:26

Source: Eitb

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