Mikel Landa falls into the trap of the 'fans'

Mikel Landa

belongs to that select club of climbers to whom something always happens, undoubtedly chaired by

and who has

as an advantageous student.

It can be a silly fall, a puncture at the worst time or it can be the wind, like this Friday.

The fact is that the Spaniard tends to condemn himself to row against the current in the great tours before he can measure himself equally against his main rivals in the important mountain events.

As marked by fire by an eternal curse, history repeats itself and he will have to face the two stages of the Pyrenees this weekend with a disadvantage of 1'21 '' compared to the rest of the favorites.

This time, the threat was more than announced, they were the 'fans' of a propitious stage for the war that cut with the conservative dynamics that had marked the Tour so far.

And Landa, along with

,

and

, was the great victim.

Carapaz also enters that group, who after his Ineos turned the race upside down had a mechanical breakdown and, despite having the help of

to limit the damage, also arrived with the group of the Spanish runner.

In a day run by fire, at an average of 47.5 km / h, all the other contenders for the podium in Paris fought the threats, from the still leader

to the Spanish Valverde, Mas and Soler, passing through favorites like Bernal , Roglic, Dumoulin, Pinot, López, Quintana, Buchmann ... A circumstance that delves into Landa's wound, condemned from now on to invoke 'Landism' again, attacking without looking too far back seeking to cut a difference that At this point in the race, it is too wide.

There was hardly time for relaxation in a dynamited journey from the initial kilometers through

Bora

.

The Slovakian aware that his top speed no longer allowed him to compete in flat arrivals, he ordered his team to burst the peloton at the third category port located 9 kilometers from the start.

And he did it, ruling out the Ewan, Bennett, Viviani, Kristoff.

He was, yes, without the prize of the stage, which was for the second time on this Tour for

.

De Gendt's Adventure

Once the difference with the group of pure sprinters had been consolidated, the Bora stopped and the peloton advanced without excessive difficulties in the second third of the stage, in which

tried a solo adventure that, despite its quality and power , it had no future.

His attempt died when, already in the final 40 kilometers, Ineos played the trumpet and took advantage of the wind to put together a 'fan'.

Shortly before, three of Landa's teammates (Bilbao, Caruso and Mohoric) had had a hitch and the Spaniard had been left alone with Colbrelli.

When he wanted to realize it, the gap with the group of favorites was already unbridgeable.

His Bahrain rearmed to try, together with the UAE of

, an impossible pursuit, as ahead Astana decided to collaborate with Ineos to pull the group.

Getting Landa and Pogacar out of the way was too sweet a prize to pass up.

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