Stage 11 of Vuelta a Espana 2022 was pretty uneventful, in the racing sense, as it was a good ol’ bunch sprint stage, won by Kaden Groves of BikeExchange. Joined on the day’s podium was Danny van Poppel (Bora-hansgrohe) and Alpecin’s Tim Merlier. The red jersey stays on the ice-tub loving Remco Evenepoel (QuickStep) and none of the other jerseys changed shoulders either. But there were a few developments that could change the face of the race in the coming days …
Holy WOW! The hot money was on Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) to win stage 10 of the Vuelta a Espana, and that’s exactly what happened. The bare facts speak for themselves. Clad in a red skinsuit Remco rocketed around the 30.9km flat course at an average speed of 55.658kph. Putting 48 seconds into Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic – the man who had never lost a time trial on Spanish soil, and beating his teammate (and long time stage leader) Remi Cavagna by a minute. He now leads the Vuelta by two minutes and forty one seconds from Roglic with Movistar’s Enric Mas in third
It’s time for the first of the Vuelta Tweets of the Week for 2022. We’ve had a full week of racing, which was kind of uneventful, kind of exciting, kind of meh, kind of yea! Much like the Twitterstream …