The 51st return to Bidasoa-Gran Award El Diario Vasco will meet on Saturday its final winner in the third and last stage that will depart from … Hendaia at 9.45 am and, after 102.5 kilometers, will arrive at the Paseo Colón de Irun at 12.45 after the steps by Guadalupe, Gurutze, Aritxulegi, Agiña, La Piedad, San Marcial and Erlaitz, with 2,336 meters of accumulated slope.
As it was intuited, the race reaches its last day without a clear favorite because up to eight cyclists are presented with options to be separated by just half a minute of difference after the 141 kilometers of yesterday between Irurita and Bera, with two steps by Amaiur and one for Saldias.
The winner of the stage of yesterday, the Belgian of 18 years Nijs Milan (DL Chemicals-Experza), presented his credentials to be the strongest of the group of seven cyclists who left the squad in the second step by Amaiur, where hail fell, but cannot be discarded to others. Above all, Luis Alberto Lajarín, the Murcian of Finisher, who before starting the race was one of the wheels to follow and who arrives leader to the last stage after third place in the chronoscalada on Thursday and enter yesterday the group of six that, headed by José María Martín, entered the goal of four seconds from the winner.
The Alto de Saldias, in the Ecuador of the route, was more decisive than expected, getting the thrust of the men of Finisher-Kern Pharma greatly reduce the great squad, with an Iker Gómez that passed the top in the first place.
Subsequently, the hard wall of Amaiur, where it had already been spent in the first moments of the day, served to forge the good movement with men of great power such as José María Martín (Extremadura-Pebetero), Estanislao Calabuig (Caja Rural-Aleea), Marc Torres (Cortizo team), Gari Ugarte (Euskadi Foundation), two men of the Belgian team of the Belgian team of the Belgian team of the Belgian team of the Belgian team of the Belgian team of the Belgian team of the Belgian team of the Belgian team Thibaut Ponzaerts and Nijs Milan, and two cyclists who played a great role in the counterreloj such as Luis Alberto Lajarín and the French Sevane Mattosian (AVC-Aix in Provence).
With a margin of a minute about the persecutor group the seven runners entered in the last five kilometers and one of the moments of Impas was taken advantage of by Nijs Milan to launch the attack that nobody could answer anymore. It is his first victory in fans.
With four seconds, the Belgian line crossed the arrival line on José María Martín, who was made with the group’s sprint, and his partner Thibaut Ponzaerts. Lajarín entered the rear, new leader, who will have four seconds of rent on Sevane Mattosian, the main threat of the Murcian.
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