Vuelta a España: Group dsm-firmenich win rain-soaked stage 1 crew time trial
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Group dsm-firmenich have been the second crew on the time trial course and went on to the recent seat (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Group EF EducationEasyPost rides in entrance of the Basílica de la Sagrada Família (Picture credit score: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Photographs)
Bahrain Victorious on the 14.8km crew time trial course in Barcelona (Picture credit score: Tim de Waele/Getty Photographs)
EF Training-EasyPost on the Barcelona course (Picture credit score: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Photographs)
Group Lotto Dstny in Barcelona on moist roads (Picture credit score: Tim de Waele/Getty Photographs)
Bahrain Victorious on Stage 1 (Picture credit score: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Photographs)
Group Arkéa-Samsic trip previous on the Plaça d’Espanya (Picture credit score: Tim de Waele/Getty Photographs)
Heavy rain turns day to nighttime as Bora-Hansgrohe rides the course (Picture credit score: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Photographs)
Group Jayco AlUla trip by means of the Plaça d’Espanya throughout the crew time trial (Picture credit score: Tim de Waele/Getty Photographs)
Riders for Jumbo-Visma negotiate the downpour throughout the 14.8km crew time trial (Picture credit score: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Photographs)
UAE Group Emirates trip underneath darkish skies of rainstorm throughout crew time trial (Picture credit score: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Photographs)
Movistar Group made the end very shut and positioned second on stage 1 (Picture credit score: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Photographs)
Group dsm-firmenich put in a mistake-free trip to win the opening crew time trial on the Vuelta a España, in treacherous circumstances. The second crew to begin, they completed the 14.8km course in a time of 17:30 to win forward of Movistar and EF Training-EasyPost. The victory put Lorenzo Milesi within the first chief’s jersey of this 12 months’s race after he crossed the road forward of his teammates.
In competition for the stage win, Movistar have been flying on dwelling roads in pitch black and set the identical time as Group dsm-firmenich on the checkpoint. The 5 riders left within the Spanish crew weren’t in a position to stick collectively on the line and finally completed lower than one second again.
With the stage size measuring 9km shorter than the 23km TTT from stage 1 final 12 months, time gaps have been anticipated to be smaller, however the troublesome moist and darkish circumstances on the technical course with 22 corners induced havoc for a lot of groups.
Beginning mid-way, Bahrain-Victorious completed in seventh, 10 seconds down whereas the groups which began later needed to additionally face almost pitch-black gloom along with moist roads.
Defending Champion Remco Evenepoel’s Soudal-QuickStep squad completed fourth, tied in time with EF Training-EasyPost, at six seconds down. Ineos Grenadiers and Jumbo-Visma positioned eighth and eleventh at 20 and 32 seconds, respectively, in arrears.
