• Controversy: The great anger of Movistar: "If the UCI decides who wins the races, perfect"
  • Classifications: so is the general
  • Narration: So we live stage 19

Primoz Roglic does not win for scares. Not a day of calm for Slovenian, which shows signs of weakness and is increasingly less protected by his team.

The leader, in another stage hit by the wind, suffered a huge shock in the vicinity of Toledo, another disturbance similar to the day of Guadalajara. At 62 kilometers from the goal, he was affected by a massive fall in which Miguel Ángel López was also harmed, with the German Tony Martin (gregarious of the Jumbo) as the main victim. A chaotic situation that was followed by an attack by Movistar, with Valverde and Quintana among the most active.

The Spanish team accelerated and caused several cuts in the squad. He got to add a minute of advantage. An unexpected heater for the Slovenian and the Colombian, who had to press to contact the small group in which they were traveling second and third classified.

The regulation does not set any order that the race must be stopped due to a fall, something else is what cyclists and directors agree on. It is an unwritten rule that when the race is launched, it does not stop and that is what the Movistar says , which maneuvered in a dangerous area due to the force of the wind.

The attack of the Movistar was criticized by runners and directors and before the generated controversy, he preferred to slow down the march in order to facilitate neutralization.

José Luis Arrieta , director of the formation of Telefónica, said he ordered to stop his runners because they had told him that the UCI commissioners decided to "take the cyclists after car after the fall to the peloton." The judges approved not to stop the vehicles of the equipment between the cut groups, which facilitated the hunting of the persecutors.

"We knew how the place where the fall occurred, with a drop and an air zone, a place where we planned to act. I don't know why we had to wait," Arrieta said. The director, at the end of the stage, demanded explanations from the president of the commissioners.

A zafarranco that altered the spirits of the runners, who since then engaged in a guerrilla war. In the absence of 30 kilometers, Movistar accelerated again to cause another cut, with Valverde ahead, which Miguel also escorted

Ángel López and Pogacar . Roglic, again, victim of the fans. New scare, which was solved with troubles. Many nerves, until the French Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck-Quick Step) appeared to take a pulse to the platoon and the few surviving sprinters of the test.

The French rodent, in an agonizing arrival on the cobbled climb to the Alcazar of Toledo, knew how to suffer as few to take advantage of the minimum advantage obtained in the last leg of the day, where Valverde returned to appear between the first and subtracted three seconds to Roglic . That nobody doubts that the grandfathers will present battle in the day of tomorrow, with end in the decisive arrival in the Platform of Gredos.

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