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The backbone of Castile crowned Primoz Roglic . The Sierra de Gredos, kicked and raised by Miguel Unamuno , so hard, so majestic, so relentless with the reckless mountaineers, blessed a cyclist without vocation but ambitious as few. The Slovenian, virtual winner of the Tour, abandoned ski jumping because he soon realized that in that sport he could never be champion. A tough guy like the granite of El Almanzor, the imposing peak that governs the rugged mountain goat landscape. [Narration] [Classification]

The Sierra de Gredos is for brave climbers, such as the brave Tadej Pogacar , the Slovenian pipiolus (20 years old) who also consecrated himself with an epic victory on the Gredos Platform and with a tireless fight for the podium. The kid is the real sensation of the Vuelta, by accumulating three valuable victories, the previous ones in Andorra and Los Machucos, almost nothing.

Slovenian party in the heart of Spain. He advised Carlos Sastre , the author of the broken stage through the ports of Puerto Rico, that to dethrone Roglic it was necessary to attack from afar and place gregarious ones in escapes and then stagger them in aid of the leaders. The Astana of Miguel Ángel López , with Izagirre and Fuglsang , assumed the strategy of attrition imposing a strong rhythm in Serranillos, an acceleration that extended to the walls of Navatalgordo, a four-kilometer port with concrete sections that forced the runners to meander to save its rugged and steep slopes. There was a truce and the gregarious of Roglic (the six survivors of the Jumbo) controlled the race to Peña Negra, long port of Piedrahita, whose top houses a spectacular paragliding flight shuttle.

Lopez's attack

In the first ramps the Astana reappeared. Lopez attacked 40 kilometers from the finish line and then Pogacar responded with a blunt blow to assault the third place on the podium, he was only separated by 1:01 from Quintana , a time he neutralized at the top of the port. Valverde threatened with a disconcerting movement and waited for Quintana, Pedrero and Soler . The leader, quiet, witness secondary fights.

Pogacar joined Hoyos del Espino, a shop window of Gredos, "bare heart / of live rock / of the roughest granite / which with its crests in the sky touches", which Unamuno used to play. The Slovenian pressed until Valverde was put on the ropes, 1:39 before beginning the climb to the Gredos Platform. The Murcian was barely flinched, either, and incomprehensibly, Nairo Quintana, who lost the podium in favor of Pogacar, another banner of the new cycling, that which includes Bernal , Van der Poel , Evenepoel and Mas .

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