Back to Spain 2025: Marc Soler Rey de la Farrapona, Vingegaard subject to Almeida
Marc Soler (UAE) scored the third Spanish victory in La Vuelta With a heroic and “unexpected” getaway that allowed him to cross the goal of the pharrapona alone, celebrating his wife’s birthday, kissing the bracelets of his right wrist, and making the persecution of the favorite group useless, where Vingegaard scratched two seconds as a leader, beating the sprint to Joao Almeida.
Soler opted for “walking or bursting.” The idea was to prepare Almeida’s jump to power on the Asturian peak, but he found strength and burned the ships successfully. The cyclist of Vilanova I La Geltrú, 31, signed his fourth victory in the return and seventh of the UAE as a conqueror of the decimocuarta stage disputed between Aviles and El Alto de la Farrapona, 135.9 km.
A long, agonized attack that the Catalan cyclist had to suffer until crossing the goal congratulating his wife in the best possible way. With a success that signed at 3h.48.22, at an average of 35.7 km/hour. The “Gallos” of the general did not arrive on time. Vingegaard and Almeida, in this order, crossed 39 seconds.
The bonuses added 2 seconds to the Danish locker, who now has Almeida 48 seconds. The third place is for the British Tom Pidcock, 2.38 and the letter to the Australian Jai Hindley at 3.10. The first Spanish is Abel Balderstone (Caja Rural), fourteenth at 19.26.
Second assault on the Asturian mountain with the ATEAR FINAL FLARAPONA. The Proportian soundtrack, already usual, did not miss the departure of Aviles. Israel’s team came out without the country’s name in the jersey “for security reasons.” Ahead a short, but explosive day, with 3 entity ports and a total of 3,800 meters of accumulated slope.
As in the previous stage out of exit for adding to the escape, which ended up curdling with 25 runners, including two men of Almeida, Soler and Bjerg; and one from Vingegaard, Championaerts. The Catalan cyclist of the painting emirmed crowned El Alto del Tenebreo (3rd, 5.8 km at 6.5), with about 6 minutes on the main group led by the red jersey visma.
In the ascent to San Lorenzo (1a, 10 km to 8.5), a port of the toughest in Spain, without a meter of respite, of constant effort, took an invoice in the escape by reducing it to 10 runners, which kept on the top 3.30 minutes on the main group, where the fray between the UAE and the visma was already glimpsed.
Ayuso gave his face pulling in the lead, followed by Vine, Grobschartner as Almeida guerda. He was also armored Vingegaard with Jorgenson, Tulett and Kuss. That order was launched to a rapid descent on a road that offered landscapes in each curve. Territory where part of the Cantabrian brown bears colony still inhabit.
The UAE did not reduce the rhythm at the end of the descent. Ayuso climbed and went down to the bare chest, until he burst 20 from the finish line. Almeida and Vingegaard maintained 3 assistants each, but the Portuguese still had soler in the escape. The visma always to the wheel, without spending the least to give relay.
As soon as the challenge of the farrapona (1a, 17 km at 5.9) began attacked Soler for the stage. The Catalan solved the toughest part of the port, with percentages of 2 digits to the goal. The tactic was to wait for Almeida if the Portuguese attacked, but it was not so, and Soler put the direct while waiting for some events that did not arrive.
Therefore, Soler squeezed his teeth, suffered the unspeakable and took a prestige stage. Almeida could not release Vingegaard, and the Danish was formed to make tables and the “tip” of 2 seconds. There was no battle as in Angliru. Draw forces?. Maybe the giant of the eve lined the strength of the staff.
The party, meanwhile, continues in the UAE. Matxín’s team does not arrive at the Red Jersey, but they have 7 stages in this edition and 80 victories in the season. For Spanish cycling, disappeared from Top 10, Soler achieved the third crown after Ayuso. The return is heading to the Vingegaard-Almeida duel to Madrid.
This Sunday will take place the fifteenth stage between Veigadeo/Vegadeo and Monforte de Lemos, 167 km. Medium mountain day that leaves Asturias and arrives in Galicia with a wavy profile conducive to the escapes. Two scoring high before Ecuador of the journey: Puerto de la Groganta (1a, 16.5 km to 5.1) and Barbeitos (2a, 11.9 km to 3.9). The surprises will be unlikely, not impossible.
EFE
