Back to Spain 2025: Pedersen, finally, the thorn is taken; Vingegaard continues to the front
The Danish Mads Pedersen (Lidl Trek) showed that “who follows her” achieving her first victory to the Esprint in the Tour of Spain 2025, in the fifteenth stage, played between Vegadeo and Monforte de Lemos, of 167.8 km, transition day for the favorites, with the Danish Jonas Vingegaard to the front in the general.
While the proportions gain ground to the sporting aspect of the return, life continues, not without shocks. On the route, the occasion was taken advantage of by Pedersen (Tollose, 29 years old) to get the spine to the spint. He was still unpublished, somewhat frustrated, but he got into the good and large escape of the day and by speed he won the game to the Venezuelan Orluis Aular (Movistar).
It was the fourth victory in the Tour for the Danish, which unites at five o’clock in the turn and two of the tour, over a total of 60 in its palmarés, including the 2019 World Cup. It marked a time of 4h.02.13, to an average of 41.6 km/h. The main squad, in Asueto peonada, appeared in Monforte at 13 minutes, a double fence armor by the police to prevent the proportions from taking a step forward.
In the general, without novelty. Vingegaard will enjoy Monday of the second rest day as a employer. Before the decisive third week he has the Portuguese Joao Almeida 48 seconds and the British Tom Pidcock at 2.38. The first Spanish is still Abel Balderstone (Caja Rural), sixteenth at 19.26 minutes.
After the two mountain stages in Asturias, the squad went to Vegadeo, on the bordering coast with Galicia to settle a transition day prior to the second day of rest. A getaway in the script, which was started at the rise to the port to Garganta (1a, 16.5 km to 5.1), where the large group began to break.
A rise to a stopped ball where a huge escape group formed with 47 men. The Vingegaard visma and the UAE of Almeida gave the green light to the project. The indefatigable mountain leader entered, Jay Vine, Ciccone, Bernal, Buitrago, Verona, Aular and Carlos Canal.
Coronó Vine, insatiable despite his two stage victories. The Australian presented credentials for the triplet attacking next to Vervaeke at the Alto de Barbeitos (2a, 11.9 km to 3.9). On the crest both had 2 minutes on the persecutors and 9 with respect to a platoon directed by the visma rolled at a cycatourist pace. Free day, asho for the men of the general.
I came and Vervaeke challenged the persecutors. Two against 45 looked like a disproportionate imbalance, but the Australian and the Belgian took the mountain. The advantage was reduced. Hunting were five men from Lidl, in a clear majority, thinking about Pedersen’s success in Monforte. The Movistar had Channel, Romo and the Venezuelan Aular as another clear candidate.
56 km from the finish line arrived a new shock. A Propalestinian protester tried to invade the road to the passage of the runners, but stumbled without achieving its goal. What he created was a bewilderment that ended with Javier Romo on the ground. The Spanish cyclist got up and ran in search of the frustrated spontaneous. Luckily, no damage had to be regretted. Another episode of a convulsive return, in permanent alert.
The head duo claudicated 7 km from the finish line. A juicy victory in Monforte de Lemos, capital of the Ribeira Sacra was at stake. A new group was formed with 9 men, who were already going to play glory. I came, Pedersen, Aular, Bernal and Buitrago among them. The clear favorites, Pedersen and Aular, the fastest.
Final madness for the position, attack festival. Pedersen himself tried 2.2 km, Egan Bernal reacted, then attacked Vervaeke, I also came, but nobody decided. Yes, Mads Pedersen did with a distant demarchex that made the effort of Orluis Aular made useless.
The return rests in Galicia this Monday. A respite after the hard Asturian stages, a truce, is expected at least, for extra -sports issues. On Tuesday again to the route with the sixteenth stage, between Poio and Mos, “the classic Galician”.
EFE
