Roglic regains the lead in the chrono with his fourth stage victory

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This is the Tour of the two leaders, Primoz Roglic and

, who monopolize all the red jerseys that have been distributed in the 13 stages already completed and who are exchanging them in seconds, even during a couple of stages fixing both the same time in the general.

After in Angliru the Ecuadorian recovered it and this Tuesday the Slovenian recovers it, who prevails over the rest in the terrain that best dominates, the time trial, although he does so with less solvency than expected with respect to Carapaz himself and especially

, who sneaks in without anyone waiting for him in the trio of hopefuls for victory in Madrid.

Because Roglic won the stage, the fourth already for him, making all the predictions good, but those who spoke that he would easily open a gap of more than one minute with the rest of the favorites were wrong.

And it does not seem that it was because the leader of Jumbo did not have his best day, because no one was better than him (

was a second away from achieving the victory of his life), but because those who now succeed him in the general performed very above what could be expected of them.

Carapaz, now second overall at 39 seconds, only yielded 49 with Roglic and paradoxically it was on the wall of the Mirador de Ézaro where he yielded the most, despite the fact that priori it was the most favorable terrain for him.

In other words, it was more solvent in the almost 32 kilometers of flat terrain along the Costa da Morte than in the two finals in which the road steepened at times up to 30% unevenness.

All in all, a great result for the Ecuadorian, who keeps his chances of winning the Vuelta fully alive.

Carthy's surprise

The great surprise of the time trial was the performance of Carthy, who consolidated himself in third place in the general classification (and distanced Dan Martin in 55 seconds) and took leave to think big, however difficult it may be to cut him 47 seconds in which Roglic is now ahead of him.

With the Slovenian he barely gave up 25 seconds, in what has undoubtedly been the time trial of his life.

"We are content with the podium, although we are going to fight it, of course", warns

, sports director of Education First for which the British cyclist runs.

Who was not at all happy with the only time trial of this Vuelta is

, who left 1'43 "with Roglic and loses practically any option to get on the podium in Madrid." It was a disaster, I have not found the rhythm on the bicycle ", the Balearic lamented, at 3'23" now in the general classification and at 2'26 "from Carthy. Too long for the remainder of the Vuelta, because although none of the remaining stages (except for the last one) It is not at all comfortable, only on Saturday, with a final at La Covatilla, it seems propitious for there to be a battle between the best in the general classification. It will be the nightmare of the penultimate day that Roglic will have to revive. He does not have Pogacar now, but he does have Carapaz and Carthy, which is not little.

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