today, 2:35 pm | by Tom van der Salm
Seven days of carnage, that is what we have been given so far in this Vuelta a Espana. It doesn’t seem to be any different for stage eight, as we seem to have enough ingredients for a crazy ride with rain and a very steep final climb. In the Leiderstrui there is from start to finish through this live blog!
We start a little after 13:00 in Denia, a place where most of the peloton is well known. This is one of the Spanish seaside resorts in the region where a large part of the teams pitch their tents in winter for a training camp. From Denia it goes over some well-known climbs towards the Xorret de Catí, one of the toughest mountains on the Costa Blanca.
Its length of four kilometers is not even that impressive, but the gradients certainly are: an average of 11.4 (!), knowing that the first kilometer is only eight percent in the air. The fast calculator then knows that a kilometer must be offset by fifteen percent to reach an average of 11.4, so that’s promising!
In addition, the predicted weather conditions in this part of Spain are not so good for Saturday. It doesn’t rain much here, but let that be expected just before Saturday. ‘And inland it can be quite slippery’, Remco Evenepoel, who has a house in Calpe, already noted.
In the general classification Lenny Martinez defends an eight second lead over Jumbo-Visma driver Sepp Kuss. The other leaders of the Dutch formation, Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic, are just like Evenepoel at almost three minutes.
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2023-09-02 12:00:00
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