This Thursday, September 11, it was probably one of the last highlights of this 80th Vueltawith the individual time trial around Valladolid. At the end of the 12.2 kilometers of this time, reduced to protect runners from pro-Palestinian demonstrators, it is the Italian of the training INEOS Grenadiers, Filippo Gannawhich was the strongest in front of the best climber of this edition, the Australian Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and the Portuguese JOAO ALMEIDA (UAE Team Emirates-XRG). The latter is certainly the big winner of this timed event concerning the favorites, since he notably resumed 10 seconds to his rival, the leader of this Vueltathe Danish Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease A Bike). The leader in the Emirati training spoke after his arrival and seems to be disappointed with this change of course.
VIDEO – The reaction of Jonas Vingegaard, leader of this Vuelta.
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“You can never know how things would have gone differently …”
“I did my best”analyzed Almeida After the time trial. “It was not an ideal effort for me, it was a shame that it was not the 27.2 time trial that we had to do, but that's how things happen. We can never know how things would have gone differently, but life is made of 'if', so there is not much to do. We can still be satisfied with the result. That cyclists, we know how to adapt to all the scenarios.explains the Portuguese.
He notably added: “Every day, we did our best. Sometimes we were better, sometimes less good. But we must always be focused and do your best. In the end, this is the only thing we can do, you have to learn to control the things you can control”concludes JOAO ALMEIDA.
