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
Here’s your highlights.
⏪🎬 Revive la espectacular CRI de hoy en tan solo 1 minuto. Una etapa repleta de sorpresas y un dominador único.
🔥 Enjoy the best of today's ITT on Stage 10 at #LaVuelta22 in just 60 seconds! pic.twitter.com/NgQwLgcFs0
— La Vuelta (@lavuelta) August 30, 2022
Remco
Of all the tweets I have seen today, Beth has summed Remco’s display the best.
I don't know what to think about any of this. It's incredibly impressive, but I don't find myself feeling excited by him or his ride. More like terrified.
— 🌻🌻🌻 🇺🇦 Beth 🇺🇦🌻🌻🌻 (@stuckinoregon) August 30, 2022
His victory had an air of inevitability about it from the second he rolled of the ramp and got that huge gear turning on a course that suited his coiled power to a tee.
— Alexandre Mignot (@AlexandreMignot) August 30, 2022
Has anybody else's first ever Grand Tour stage win felt quite as inevitable as that?
Unreal performance from Evenepoel, the Young Wolf ends Roglič's ITT record in Spain 🔥#LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/66qCEEH4Zz
— Will Newton (@InsidePeloton96) August 30, 2022
First Belgian rider in more than three decades to win a time trial at #LaVuelta22 🙌 pic.twitter.com/Z4WhrekJhQ
— Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team (@qst_alphavinyl) August 30, 2022
In his own words while looking fresh as a daisy!
"We just have to fight to keep this jersey and take it home to Wevelgem!" 🔴🇧🇪
Here's the moment where Remco Evenepoel is told how much time he beat Primoz Roglic by 😅#LaVuelta22 | @EvenepoelRemco pic.twitter.com/THcO8Rp5bM
— Eurosport (@eurosport) August 30, 2022
My favourite description of TT Remco – thank you Robbie McEwan
Definition of a teardrop
What a description of Remco by Robbie
— midge (@pariswheels) August 30, 2022
Step into a Remco free world
It wasn’t that all of the contenders for the maillot rojo had bad days. In fact if you ignore Remco’s time, the stage results looked pretty much as you might expect for this group.
I admit I was worried about Roglic, but he laid down a fantastic time to beat a scorching Cavagna. Enough to take him past Mas on the podium steps.
Just saying: @rogla coming back from injury, under-prepared, with a rear wheel puncture at the end, still rode his fastest ever flat ITT today, moved into 2nd place, now better than all but one. Imagine if he’d actually prepped for this!! In awe of this ultimate warrior 🥰🥰🥰
— tamar meskin (@tamreeg19) August 30, 2022
⏪ ¿Será la CRI de 🇸🇮@rogla o la de 🇧🇪@EvenepoelRemco? Así se prepara el 3 veces campeón de La Vuelta y el ❤️líder.
👀 Three time Vuelta winner and the current GC leader warm up. Who will come out on top?#LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/KEKGI4E9YF
— La Vuelta (@lavuelta) August 30, 2022
🇪🇸 #LaVuelta22
Third time at the first intermediate point for Primoz. Same time as the number one. It’s already so close. 😅
Come on, Primoz! 👊🏼
— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) August 30, 2022
🇪🇸 #LaVuelta22
Second place in this ITT for our fighter. ⚔️
He also moves up to second place in GC.We are proud of you, Primoz. 🙌🏼
— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) August 30, 2022
I am happy about it. I think I can I did a good time trial. It’s a nice result and a big congrats to Remco. He’s on a different level at the moment.
Enric Mas is not a noted time triallist. He could have dropped a bundle of time, so only losing a minute to Rog and thereby dropping to third is not as bad as it might have been.
🗣️ @EnricMasNicolau, tras la CRI de #LaVuelta22: "He empezado bien, pero al final me costó un poco. Era una crono 'para ellos', sin grandes desniveles. Pienso que no lo hemos hecho mal. Queda mucho. Décima etapa. Seguimos día a día, como digo desde Utrecht".
📸 @PhotoGomezSport pic.twitter.com/7TGUIVqzKP
— Movistar Team (@Movistar_Team) August 30, 2022
I think we did not do too badly.
Good ride this from Mas by his standards. #LaVuelta
— John Galloway (@cyclinglegends2) August 30, 2022
PLUS he wasn’t Remco’ed which is always a worry for any rider.
Enric Mas hasn't been caught by Remco today. Great success, great ride! #LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/8fRbepJzGl
— Mihai Simion (@faustocoppi60) August 30, 2022
The INEOS young guns came out blazing and now have three riders in the top 10 on GC. Whether this will give them tactical options in the mountains remains to be seen.
3 Grenadiers inside the Top 10 today!
With @_rccarlos, @PavelSivakov and @taogeoghegan 4th, 5th and 8th respectively.Carlos still sits 4th on the GC.#LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/xkCqDDDjn5
— INEOS Grenadiers (@INEOSGrenadiers) August 30, 2022
Even BikeExchange-Jayco had good news to impart
#LaVuelta22 @SimonYatess moves up 1 place to 5th overall after today's TT ⬆️ pic.twitter.com/FDXE5FZzT9
— Team BikeExchange-Jayco (@GreenEDGEteam) August 30, 2022
And back to reality
As much as we may wish it, La Vuelta is not Remco free. We can’t ignore the tighter stranglehold he now has on the race lead.
Remco’s building enough of a buffer that he’ll be able to survive a bad day unless it’s a catastrophe. #LaVuelta22
— John Galloway (@cyclinglegends2) August 30, 2022
Remco will have more than enough advantage on the competition after today. The question is, how he will cope on long and difficult climbs in the high mountains. Sierra Nevada will be decisive. #Vuelta2022
— Felix Schönbach (@Felixschoenbach) August 30, 2022
But we can always fall back on the old adage – it’s a long LONG way to go with days in the mountains to face. Will three minutes be enough?
Only time, Jumbo-Visma and Movistar will tell.
Unfortunately we have to covid to that list, especially given the number of riders who have tested positive.
While it's sad to see any rider abandon a race, I really hope we don't see this Vuelta decided by a Covid case. That would be a frustrating way for it to go.
— Sadhbh O'Shea (@SadhbhOS) August 30, 2022
Sadly of those not taking the start today was Sam Bennett (BORA-hansgrohe)
Bora-Hansgrohe confirms that Bennett out with Covid-19. #LaVuelta22 https://t.co/nHJYbGGeHC
— Sadhbh O'Shea (@SadhbhOS) August 30, 2022
🎙@Mads__Pedersen: "I didn't hear until after my TT that Sam was out with Covid. It’s a pity as it would be nice to keep fighting for green with him. We have a good relationship; it’s fun to compete and take points in front of each other. I wish him all the best." #LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/sq3kpG4LUc
— Trek-Segafredo (@TrekSegafredo) August 30, 2022
If we expect riders to retire from the race when they test positive, then surely some sort of covid protocol should be established to protect them. The race organisers can’ have it both ways.
"There are people who are standing one-and-a-half meters from me who aren't wearing masks." – @Mads__Pedersen on the #LaVuelta22 Covid protocols … or lack of them.
— Mike Marino 🇺🇦 (@BikeMarino) August 30, 2022
Time trial shenanigans
Poor Joao Almeida (UAE Team-Emitrates) went off route in the finale and lost 20seconds or so.
⏪😅 Ups.. Wrong way.
🚴♂️@JooAlmeida98 – @TeamEmiratesUAE #LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/kxUCkeYc3K
— La Vuelta (@lavuelta) August 30, 2022
The face sock – JUST NO! Look how much trouble Quickstepper Remi had taking the thing off.
OMG… poor Remi having to de-sock his head after his TT. I can't think of anything worse
— midge (@pariswheels) August 30, 2022
While the Vuelta King of the Mountain jersey is a thing of beauty, I have no words to describe the skinsuit version. Chapeau to Jay Vine for wearing it.
⏪ @JayVine3 y su jersey de lunares en marcha.
💙🤍 Jay Vine – @AlpecinDCK gets his ITT run started in his polka dot KOM leaders jersey#LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/mVsZSSeUBe— La Vuelta (@lavuelta) August 30, 2022
The Final Word
The pressure is off, I won a stage
… Remco#LaVuelta22
— midge (@pariswheels) August 30, 2022
Results
Stage 10 results
1 Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) 0:33:18
2 Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) +0:48
3 Remi Cavagna (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) +1:00
4 Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers) +1:22
5 Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers ) +1:27
GC Top 10
1 Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl ) 34:35:50
2 Primož Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) +2:41
3 Enric Mas (Movistar) +3:03
4 Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers) +3:55
5 Simon PHILLIP Yates (Team BikeExchange – Jayco) +4:50
6 Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) +4:53
7 João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) +6:45
8 Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana Qazaqstan) +6:50
9 Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers) +7:06
10 Tao Geoghegan Hart (INEOS Grenadiers) +7:37
All the Jerseys
Leader’s jersey : Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl)
Points jersey : Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo)
King of the Mountains jersey : Jay Vine (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
Young Rider Jersey : Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl)
Team competition : INEOS Grenadiers
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