Cavagna escapes the anger. Deia, Bizkaia News

bilbao – A lap of the last great battle through the Sierra de Gredos, the Vuelta was entangled in a bad way in the mud of the controversy, caught the race in the crossfire of the accusations, the gazes loaded with lead and the tense, irrespirable, warlike environment. Open war in Toledo, which has an army museum and the banner of Federico Martín Bahamontes. A fall at the exit of Escalona, ​​with a stone remover to his left, on the bank of the Alberche River, 65 kilometers from the finish line, was the trigger for a great quarrel that thinned the atmosphere of the Vuelta. On the ground, Primoz Roglic, Miguel Ángel López and a good number of numbers. Although without injuries, except for Tony Martin who had to leave with a breach in his eyebrow, the squad was fragmented by the fall. In the Movistar, which was looking for the wind, they understood that the accident, which Valverde and Quintana got rid of, was the ideal scenario to fight against the leader. The Movistar stood at the spearhead ready to energize the race. It was his chance.

The acceleration of Movistar, according to its directors was planned in advance, relieved the rest of the teams, who did not understand such an attitude because the race was stopped. That, probably, was the nuance of anger, the detail that changed the perception of the offensive. With the race launched, nobody stops. However, the race was calm. A few escapes, from where Cavagna emerged, a victorious sword in Toledo, and the flanged squad. The impulse of Movistar provoked the angry and evil response of Miguel Ángel López, involved in the fall, at the conclusion of the stage. "They are the same fools who always do the same things." “The Movistar movement is disrespectful to the leader of the Tour. They always do the stupid, it's their way of acting, ”argued Lopez, who accused Movistar of foul play.

“We have dropped 20 runners or more. They are always the typical ones who take advantage of those moments. It's not the first time. We have already seen it in other opportunities, in other occasions, in other races. They always do the stupid. They are the same fools who do the same things. Let's see if one day they win a race by attacking head-on, ”said Lopez, who was shooting with a bullet. SupermanHe didn't bite his tongue. “That is his way of acting. It is already known. That is their reaction, always. It makes a lot of anger with these silly performances that make the world champion team. What a world champion we have! ”, The Colombian attacked. Roglic, the leader, was more diplomatic. He avoided the controversy. "I do not know very well what has happened because I was quite behind trying to solve the problems that my bike had and I will have to see the images," he resolved in goal. After the montonera, the girl from Valverde – who did not want to talk – got a minute's rent on Roglic and López, cut by the fall. Astana in full was behind. Lopez's bodyguard stood up to rescue his leader. Roglic, with the equipment shattered in the montonera, climbed into the Kazakh carriage. The Movistar pulled for 15 kilometers until the offensive stopped while the leader and Lopez progressed in a blatant trascoche. The ICU had taken action on the matter and decided that it would not be done barrage:there would be no gaps between the cars of the different groups after the fall. Refugees in the vehicle rebuild, Roglic, López and the rest of the victims reached the Movistar group. Omar Fraile, one of the bodyguards of Superman,he got up to Valverde and recriminated his team's attitude. The Bullet Shrugged.

planned attack José Luis Arrieta, director of the Movistar, did not sit idly by. He told RTVE that the UCI had decided to regroup the race, allowing Roglic and López to get back into the squad. “The UCI has said that it would bring everyone to the wheel of the cars. If this is cycling, if the UCI decides who wins the races, okay, perfect, ”he said, very annoying. Arrieta explained that the attack was planned before the fall. “It has been lived as we planned. We already knew that the descent was like that, there was the bridge and then there was the air zone. We have often had to suffer that, for example with Valverde, and nobody has wondered why he does not stop to wait. We had planned it that way, it was a moment that could be used ”. The coach recalled that “other times it has happened to us and the ICU has not taken part. We had already planned the air site, where you had to spend first. In the previous town we were already ahead. If we have to leave hours and more hours to see tours, to see roads so that later … I don't like a fall, but other times it has touched us and we have lost Laps and Tours. The decision to stop has been ours. When the UCI says that it is going to splice all the runners corridor, it already is, ”he said very disgusted. Arrieta asked for a meeting with the judges to argue that decision. The decision of the judges is debatable, but it is very different to determine that there is no place for a barrage to allow the cut runners to link allowing them a trench.

The fallen, dragged by the cars, regrouped. The wind, which has given the Tour more excitement than all the mountains together, blew furiously and the tension shot back into the squad, ragged in empty lands, where the wind runs free. The race was boiling. Between the bursts, the fans. Movistar returned to the load. Valverde, López, Pogacar, Majka and some pawns of the Bora formed a threatening unit. Roglic, out of focus again, soon grazed tooth decay. Rémi Cavagna, another wolf from the pack of the Deceuninck, fierce and powerful, ripped through the fleeing with the thirsty jaws of glory. The Frenchman crossed the wind and started a magnificent victory in Toledo after enduring the stoning in the middle of a pitched battle. Only Cavagna escaped the anger.