He roar of tarragona is in keeping with the day. Heat; finally he sweats in the peloton. And finally, everyone knows that there will hardly be another script than a sprint in the Catalan farewell to a very eventful Vuelta, between the water, the cold, via Andorra, and the brainless who do not understand that no matter how much hatred is had for the race You can’t go around trying to dump 400 liters of motor oil when the peloton passes through your town. It is barbaric and sabotage.
In stage races there always have to be recovery days. A day in the mountains is followed by another flat one, a long descent from the Pyrenees to the Mediterraneanwith consented escape, as it has to be, and with so much noise when the runners approach the finish line that it is impossible for anyone in Tarragona not to know that the Vuelta ended in the city.
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🇦🇺 @kaden_groves 👊 beat 🇨🇴 @sebasmolano_ in the last meters. 🎥 Relive it!
Down to the wire!
🇦🇺 Kaden Groves 👊 beats 🇨🇴 Sebastián Molano in the final meters. 🎥 Watch again!#LaVuelta23 #CarrefourwithLaVuelta23 @carrefourES pic.twitter.com/hGKY9fHoHT— La Vuelta (@lavuelta) August 29, 2023
Cyclists and spectators sweat. The first ones lower their heads, which they only raise when the curve arrives. The fans yell, hit the billboards and try to cheer up some runners who, at 60 an hour, are only looking out for themselves, to win like Kaden Groves, to try, like he did Juan Sebastian Molanoor finish without incident, without crashing after crossing the finish line, without a puncture and thinking that his body will only get wet when he gets in the shower, as was the case with the leader Remco Evenepoel and the rest of the rivals.
People come to the finish line to see the show; In fact, he doesn’t care who wins since there isn’t a pure and intractable sprinter among the local runners. They go by so fast that you can’t even see them, especially if you make the mistake of taking the photo with your mobile first. It is an incorrigible vice.
La Vuelta enters Tarragona at a frenetic pace. The first fall is five kilometers away and the last fall is 400 meters away when the Dutchman Matijn van den Berg he takes a straight curve and crashes into the fences.
🇦🇷 @EduSepulvedaARG makes history by becoming the first Argentine to wear the distinctive leader’s jersey of a GV classification.
🤩 Eduardo Sepulveda – @lotto_dstny is making history as the first Argentine to lead standings in a Grand Tour.#LaVuelta23 |… pic.twitter.com/bFADpvosdK
— La Vuelta (@lavuelta) August 29, 2023
400 meters from the finish line, the favorites have settled in the security zonein the middle of the peloton, away from those who are risking their skins, like the Australian Groves, hunting and capturing a victory. Follow the screaming. molano, Colombian and Juan Ayuso’s teammate in the UEA, shoots hard taking advantage of the slight climb towards the finish line. Maybe too soon, because Groves He catches the wheel and beats it with such ease that he even has time to raise his arms when he sees himself the winner of the fourth stage.
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Groves runs in the Alpecin of the absent Mathieu van der Poel, a team that can already hang the medal as the best in mass arrivals. Jasper Philipsen gave quite a recital on the Tour and Groves happens to be the best in the class of sprinters in the Vuelta. There are not many opportunities because this is a race allied with the mountains. He took advantage of Tarragona and now he can also do it this Wednesday in burriana and especially on Friday Olivethe rest of the week is reserved for the leaders of the general classification, those who breathed easy in the Catalan farewell knowing that they had saved one of those days where a Vuelta will never be won but that due to a mistake or a fall you can throw everything away. the board.