First Egan Bernal, according to Mikel Landa. This is the arrival of the 16th stage of the Vuelta, all of Galiziana, 168 km designed by Oscar Pereiro, the winner of the 2006 tour (at the table for the disqualification of Landis). But in reality the kilometers were 160 because once again, due to the pro-Pal protests, the organizers were forced to make a change in the race to the track, effectively cutting the last climb and taking times and detachments for the general classification to the least 8 kilometers from the original goal (in Bilbao, last week, the whole final had been neutralized). A situation that will inevitably discuss, since there are still 5 stages to the conclusion and there is a fear of further protests. In the meantime, the success of Egan Bernal, the 28-year-old Colombian of Ineos-Greediers who did not obtain great international success from the Giro d’Italia 2021, remains to be recorded: then the accident in training in January 2022 who conditioned his career. In the general classification, no change at the top with Jonas Vingegaard who remains in the red jersey with 48 “ahead of Joao Almeida and 2’38” on Tom Pidcock.
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La Vuelta, which will end on Sunday 14 in Madrid, continues tomorrow with the stage 17: O Barco de Valdeorras-Alto de El Murredero, 143 kilometers with uphill arrival. The last Italian to triumph in the Vuelta remains Fabio Aru, first in 2015.