2024-08-28 17:47:02
Another day in the red for leader Ben O’Connor, but this time with less advantage over the rest of the favourites, at least some of them. The Australian is clearly not the strongest in the race when the terrain goes up, as he showed in last Wednesday’s climb (he suffers more in the short and explosive ones than in the long ones) but, With the important income achieved in Yunquera when he rose to the leadership, since then everything has been related to managing and managing the differences.
After stage 6, the event in which he won, his advantage over Roglic was 4:51. Now, after 11, and with a good part of the mountain still to come, it is 3:16. This time 37 seconds fell by the wayside with Roglic, Enric Mas, Carlos Rodríguez and Mikel Landa. “It’s clear that I didn’t want to quit at that time, it’s clear, but what’s important is that the step was completed. “One less”said the leader yesterday, less smiling than the day before with the result in Bayonne.
When the escape happened, his team, Decathlon Ag2r, took the burden. “Every morning (since he dressed as a leader) We see the stage and study the potential runners and those we are not interested in. That’s why we try to control (The team ‘blocked’ for a moment during the stage, occupying the width of the road so that no one else could get on). We think everything through before chaos ensues,” Ben said of the tactic.
It was Roglic who attacked on the last climb, taking Mas on his wheel and leaving the red jersey behind. “Yes, I expected Primoz’s attack, I imagined it, but I also expected to be able to follow his wheel,” O’Connor analyzed. Roglic himself, as soon as the stage ended in Padrón, quickly went to his bus (he didn’t move the whole day because the start and the stage were in the same place) and, briefly, he expressed his feeling: “We’ve cut time, so I’m happy.” There is still a world ahead of us.
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