https://twitter.com/INEOSGrenadiers/status/1784570168468787642 A year with satisfaction, good legs, numbers and hope for the Ineos Grenadiers runner. The Colombian has not dropped out of the top 10 in all the stage races in which he has participated in 2024. Only in the Liège Bastogne Liège, which at the beginning was not planned for him, did he take 21st place.
The cyclist has made good presentations with different responsibilities, https://twitter.com/INEOSGrenadiers/status/1784579192027263397 But in O Gran Camino and Catalonia, he was the team leader. What was done in Switzerland will be similar to what will be seen in the Tour de France where the British team will compete with the Spanish team as leader.
In the final stage of the competition, Egan had a quiet day. After what was done in the penultimate fraction, where he left everything to lead his teammate to the titleon the 150.8 kilometer route in Vernier, the British team did the job of protecting its leader until the end of the fraction.
How was the last day of the Tour de Romandie?
It was a day with a lot of rain, a wet road and nervousness for all the runners. Even so, many took risks to go ahead like Remi Cavagna who ran ahead for several kilometers or like Richard Carapaz, who not only won the queen stage but in the last one he also tried to attack and go for everything.
But not only did the Ecuadorian try to open a gap with respect to the leader and try all the options before the end, Ayuso, Martin and Valgren also measured their legs to surprise. In the end, the work of Ineos prevented it, but on the difficult route with third category mountain prizes and under adverse conditionshis intentions were valued.
In the end The winner was the Frenchman of the Decathlon AG2r, Dorian Godon, who took the lead in the final sprint and comfortably beat his rivals, the Italian Simone Consonni from Lidl and the Australian Dion Smith from Intermarché. The best Colombian in the stage was Harold Tejada.
How did the Colombians do in the general classification?
In the last stage, Astana’s Tejada got into 16th place with the same time as the winner Godon. Egan was 29, Rigoberto Urán was 41 and Iván Sosa was 43, all with the same time. For his part, Sergio Higuita came in 101st place at 1 minute and 39 seconds.
Overall, Egan Bernal was tenth. This is the eighth time he has finished in the top 10. He had already done so in the national time trial and road championships in which he was sixth and third, respectively. In the Tour Colombia he was fifth, in O Gran Camino and Cataluña he was third and in Paris Nice he was seventh.
Iván Sosa was 24th at 4:16, Harold Tejada finished in 34th place at 14:03, Rigo was 41st at 20:02, Sergio Higuita was 83 at 38:23 and Jesús David Peña was 107 at 50:21.
