Jonas Vingegaard is in control at the start of Vuelta. Indeed, as the day before, the Danish of the Visma | Lease a Bike was content to follow the attacks of his two main rivals – Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-trek) et JOAO ALMEIDA (UAE Team Emirates XRG) – In the final ascent. Despite this wait -and -see tactic, Awesome It remains the best placed of the favorites in the general classification, he who points to 2nd position, 2'33 “of the red jersey Torstein Traeen (Bahrain Victorious).
“We keep our strengths for the second and third week”
“Overall, it was a correct day. It was not an easy step”said Awesome. “We still want to try to save a little energy, so yes, we decided to do nothing today, and anyway, the last ascent was difficult. But yes, the team worked well. I think that if we wanted, we could have fought for victory”he explained. “But as I said, we also still want to preserve the team. We keep our strengths for the second and third week, because it will already be quite difficult.”
