Today there was a stage with an unprecedented and spectacular finish at Les Praeres. With a hellish slope of only four kilometers up to 12.5% and with sections of 17% that squeezed the protagonists.
At the beginning, a flight of greyhounds began again, among which Michal At the beginning, a flight of greyhounds began again, among which Michal Kwiatkowski stood out. He was the last one to be reached by the group of favorites.
The escape never reached much time of difference, it was established above two minutes. Movistar, commanded by Captain Erviti, and Astana, wounded by the mechanical problem of Superman Lopez in the last kilometers of La Camperona, hardened the pace in the group to avoid surprises ahead.
That high rhythm made some of the important men stay like the leader himself, Jesus Herrada, he could not keep the red jersey although he fought like a jab.
The escape never reached much time of difference, it was established above two minutes. Movistar, commanded by Captain Erviti, and Astana, wounded by the mechanical problem of Superman Lopez in the last kilometers of La Camperona, hardened the pace in the group to avoid surprises ahead.
But it did not arrive at good port, finally it was Yates that was sent to lack of 700 meters after seeing the indecision of Nairo and Lopez. Valverde endured and even tried to pass them from behind. But Yates, who learned in the Giro the lesson of knowing how to regulate, first entered the finish line. He was the first hero of Les Praeres. The British recovered the red before the Lakes of Covadonga.
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