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Vine: “Marc is a really great teammate”
Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates): “Yes, we spoke with Marc [Soler] on the rest day that I had an unfinished business, and Marc agreed that he would help me on the last day. He was able to help to tire out the other two that were trying to go for the the points, and also to keep me super fresh, so that I could go into the finale of the stage and try to keep the team GC as well....
Skjelmose: “I feel the last three weeks in my legs”
Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek): “It was a lot of pain, from the start. I didn’t feel very good. I feel the last three weeks in my legs. I hope I can keep the white jersey. I know [Florian Lipowitz] is a really good time trialist. I would say I am as well so I hope I can keep it. I think my TT is really great, I’m the Danish champion and that says quite a lot...
Roglic: “Luckily I’m quite fine for the moment”
Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe): “The team was not at its best but everybody gave it their best, big respect, they just put everything they had. Luckily I’m quite fine for the moment so it was a nice day. We did quite a big work in these three weeks and we just have to finish it off. Let’s wait! We’re definitely one day closer, we’re going...
Dunbar: “Moments like this don’t come around too often”
Eddie Dunbar (Jayco AlUla): “This one definitely feels a bit sweeter. I said to a few people after the stage win last week that it was never a way I imagined to win a Grand Tour stage, I always imagined winning on top of a climb. I just felt good that second part today. I just backed myself on that climb. I paced myself really well. I knew that climb from a few years ago,...
Dunbar rules the final summits
Stage 20 of La Vuelta 24 was packed with ascents and with attacks, until Eddie Dunbar (Jayco AlUla) made the decisive move on the slopes of Picon Blanco to take his second stage win, ten days after his success in Padron. The Irishman resisted the return of Enric Mas (Movistar), who increases the pressure on Ben O’Connor (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), still second in the...
Soler: “We'll fight for the jersey tomorrow”
Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates): “We rode easy. In the end, we wanted to put a man in the breakaway just in case there was a chance that he could make it, but Bora controlled it. Now we have to think about tomorrow. Yes, [tomorrow is an important day] both for me and Jay [Vine]. Let's see how he is after today's crash. We'll see how it goes, and we'll fight for the jersey.”
...Skjelmose: “The most important is to stay consistent, not crack tomorrow”
Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek): “It’s my first time doing a proper GC in a Grand Tour and of course I start to feel it. I think the other guys do as well… maybe not Primoz [Roglic]! I tried not to go over the limit on any day, just to save myself as much as possible and doing the minimal amount of work possible. The most important for me was to prove myself....
Roglic: "I’m definitely impressed with the gaps"
Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe): “I had some really nice memories from this climb and I didn’t miss this opportunity, I’m happy! It was not really the plan, I said I don’t need the stage, but some guys in the team told me: ‘We don’t listen to you, we pull anyway!’ We have to be on the same page so we went for it. Tomorrow is...
Roglic flies to La Roja
Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) put the hammer down on the brutal slopes up the Alto de Moncavillo to take it all on day 19 of La Vuelta 24. The Slovenian 3-time winner of the Spanish Grand Tour claimed his 15th stage win in the event (including a previous victory atop Moncalvillo in 2020), the third this year, as well as La Roja, the 40th in his stellar record. Ben...
La Vuelta and Land Life join forces to plant 700 trees in Picón Blanco
La Vuelta and Land Life, an intelligent and precision reforestation company based in Burgos, have joined forces to highlight forest and ecosystem recovery through the ‘Puertos y Bosques’ campaign. As part of this collaboration, both organizations will plant 700 native trees around Picón Blanco, the finish venue of the 20th stage of the race. This planting...
