Vuelta a Espana 2021 : Stage 1 – Roglic rides into red in Burgos

We started Vuelta 2021 as we left it… with Primoz Roglic in the red jersey. Astana’s Alex Aranburu had spent most of a sweltering day in the #hothot seat, daring to dream that he could win his first Vuelta stage, but the defending champion wasn’t having any of it. And quite rightly, he has already put precious seconds into his main rivals.

And we’re off

A super-short but super-technical individual time trial that started at the door of Burgos Cathedral – could you ask for a more majestic start?

You even get to warm down in the cathedral when you’ve blasted to victory

Out on the course, Roglic did not take any prisoners.

Hot seats

Alex Aranburu smiles when he realises that the last rider took his stage win, but you know it hurts

And Aranburu had to sit in the sweltering heat!

GC round-up

It’s a long race – it’s a tough race (have you seen some of the gradients in the mountains! Egad!) and anything could happen. That said, all the GC hopefuls have some time to make up on Roglic already

Mikel Landa nearly missed his start time, having to scramble to get clipped in on his bike while the countdown was on. That does not bode well.

And this was just sweet.

It will be a hot sprint finish on Stage 2

The final word

All the results

Stage results 

1 Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) 08:32

2 Alex Aranburu (Astana-Premier Tech) +0:06

3 Jan Tratnik (Bahrain Victorious) +0:08

4 Tom Scully (EF Education-Nippo) +0:10

5 Josef Cerny (Deceuninck-QuickStep) same time

GC Top 10 

1 Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) 08:32

2 Alex Aranburu (Astana-Premier Tech) +0:06

3 Jan Tratnik (Bahrain Victorious) +0:08

4 Tom Scully (EF Education-Nippo) +0:10

5 Josef Cerny (Deceuninck-QuickStep) same time

6 Dylan van Baarle (Ineos Grenadiers) +0:11

7 Andrea Bagioli (Deceuninck-QuickStep) +0:12

8 Lawson Craddock (EF Education-Nippo) +0:13

9 Michael Matthews (Team Bike Exchange) +0:14

10 Alexandr Vlasov (Astana-Premier Tech) same time

All the jerseys

Leader’s jersey : Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma)

Points jersey : Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma)

King of the Mountains: Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma)

Best young rider : Andrea Bagioli 

Best team : Jumbo-Visma 

For full race results, go to CyclingNews.com 

Official Vuelta website is here 

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