Formigal (Spain) (AFP)
The Spaniard Ion Izagirre won Sunday on the 6th stage of the Tour of Spain in the Aramon Formigal ski resort where the failure of Primoz Roglic allowed Richard Carapaz to don the leader's red jersey.
In the fog and the incessant rain, Ion Izagirre, who had taken the good breakaway, placed his decisive attack three kilometers from the line in the Pyrenees resort, arrival of fallback after the cancellation of that at Tourmalet given the restrictions sanitary facilities in France.
With this victory, the Basque has now won in the three main laps after his stage successes in the Tour de France 2016 and the Giro 2012.
The cancellation of the Portalet, Aubisque and Tourmalet triptych may have been saving for Primoz Roglic, failing in the final climb, however neither particularly long or steep (14.5 km at 4.6% gradient), towards Formigal .
Overwhelmed by all his opponents who attacked him in turn, he saw Richard Carapaz, his runner-up in the general classification and the most leggy of the favorites on Sunday, succeed him in the red jersey.
The Slovenian who gave up about forty seconds on the Ecuadorian, winner of the Giro 2019, downgraded to 4th place with a disbursement of half a minute on the leader of Ineos.
Perhaps feeling that the victory of the Tour de France was not in a great day, the British team then Movistar launched the hostilities as soon as the descent of the viola of Cotefablo, the second ascent of the day.
A coup that split the peloton and trapped Primoz Roglic in a second group, fifteen seconds behind.
The Slovenian champion was able to return to the first echelon of the peloton thanks to the support of George Bennett but the episode announced a feverishness that neither Roglic nor Jumbo had shown since the big start in Irun on Tuesday.
The first day of rest Monday comes at the right time for + Rogla + before returning to the Basque Country and the middle mountains on Tuesday during the 7th stage, 160 kilometers between Vitoria-Gasteiz and Villanueva de Valdegovia
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