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Woods and Roglic rule the steeper slopes
The brutal summit finish at Puerto de Ancares saw Michael Woods (Israel Premier Tech) fly to victory and Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) open significant gaps to his GC rivals. At 37 years old, the Canadian climber got the better of his breakaway companions to take his 4th Grand Tour stage win, the 3rd in La Vuelta, a year after he tamed the brutal slopes up Puy-de-Dôme...
Rodriguez: “Hopefully I can keep these good feelings”
Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers): “It was a hard climb for sure. We were expecting it to be hard with the percentages that appear in the roadbook and it was indeed. I think I managed pretty well the effort. I knew more or less how hard I could push and I tried to maintain the same pace from the bottom. In the end, I lost some time to Primoz [Roglic] but I was close...
Van Aert: “It was better to try and grab everything there was on the road”
Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike): “Even this morning, I was not interested in [the KOM jersey]. But then I saw Kaden Groves going in an early breakaway. He’s still an opponent for the green jersey, so I decided to make the jump. Once I found myself in the breakaway, I knew it would be a hard day anyway, so I thought it was better to try and grab everything there...
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