Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Cycling: Vuelta Stages 1 and 2

The Vuelta cycling race has finally seen their first Spanish stage winner, which is Igor Anton. On the fourth leg of the race he took the win, while the Belgium overall leader was Philippe Gilbert. Vuelta Cycling Race always been online betting fans’ favorite.


300 yards from the finish line, Anton was able to break away and take a one second victory over the Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, Spain's Joaquin Rodriguez and Slovakia's Peter Velits. In total, Igor Anton finished in 5 hours and 28 seconds the 114 miles.

Russia's Dennis Menchov was only 19 seconds behind Igor Anton and took 19th place. The 2008 Tour de France winner, Carlos Sastre from Spain, who coincidentally is a climbing specialist, was in the 25th spot at 1:34. Currently, Gilbert has a 10 second overall lead over both Rodriguez and Anton.

Previously in the race, Belgium's Philippe Gilbert was ahead in the standings overall. He was able to surge to the finish line, even though the afternoon was sweltering hot and came out the winner in the third stage.

The first grand tour for the young American, Tejay Van Garderen, was able to place fourth in the overall and managed to survive his first hill test. 26 seconds behind is Team HTC-Columbia rider.

The 98 mile ride from Marbella was completed by Gilbert in 4 hours, 6 minutes and 12 seconds. He then able to take the red jersey. Katusha's Joaquin Rodriguez was beat by the Pharma-Lotto rider by only 3 seconds during this stage. For the overall classification, he has a 14 second lead over him.