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Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (2019) Photos; Stage 5: Paterna → Valencia, 88 km | ||
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| Crash in the final km | share this photo | |
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| Dylan Groenewegen (Netherlands / Team Jumbo - Visma), far left, coming from along way back | share this photo | |
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| But all the favorites made it through; the sprint finish in full flight in Valencia | share this photo | |
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| Dylan Groenewegen (Netherlands / Team Jumbo - Visma) wins in a photo finish (with the best bike throw) ahead of 2nd Alexander Kristoff (Norway / UAE Team Emirates) and 3rd Matteo Trentin (France / Team Mitchelton - Scott) | share this photo | |
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| The finish scene in Valencia | share this photo | |
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| Dylan Groenewegen (Netherlands / Team Jumbo - Visma) is pretty certain he has his first win of the season: "It was a hard final with a lot of corners. I was a bit far back on the last corner, but I could make my jump at the good moment. It’s the first win of 2019 for me and the first for the team too." | share this photo | |
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| Awaiting the official verdict | share this photo | |
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| Your Stage 5 winner, Dylan Groenewegen (Netherlands / Team Jumbo - Visma) | share this photo | |
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| Looks like somebody really wants to be on the gc podium... | share this photo | |
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| Your GC podium: 2nd Alejandro Valverde (Spain / Team Movistar) + 7s, 1st Ion Izaguirre (Astana) and 3rd Pello Bilbao (Spain / Team Astana) + 7s. Valverde doesn't look 38 years old in a ball cap while Izaguirre and Bilbao look like brothers | share this photo | |
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| First GC win by Ion Izaguirre (Astana) in 4 years, something to celebrate. Alejandro Valverde post race: "We won last year and we're not leaving empty-handed this year, either: finishing in 2nd place, with such a luxury podium, is a good result. It's been a beautiful race, a very tight one, with a great winner in Ion. He's a good friend of mine, a team-mate for many years in the Movistar Team as well as a huge source of help in last year's Innsbruck Worlds. I also remember he crashed at the very same turn I got badly injured in Düsseldorf during the opening time trial of the 2017 Tour de France. It's a good sign to be here, both of us, recovered and offering Spanish cycling some more joy. In the end, crashes are part of our sport, the element of risk we have to face every day. All in all, I think we gave it a good fight, both in the crucial stages and the overall result - but yesterday's climb, so explosive, wasn't the place for me to bridge the gap overall back to Ion, so I knew it was sort of an impossible task to bounce back after the TT. Yates was a well-deserved winner, so I feel happy with the 2nd place in Alcossebre as well as in the GC." | share this photo | |
Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (2019) Photos; Stage 5: Paterna → Valencia, 88 km | ||
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