It was very close, as the 6. stage in Catalonia, Around Saturday were definitely in a massespurt.
a Long time it was impossible to designate a winner, but after some minutes Michael Matthews (Sunweb) rejoice in the extremely dense spurtsejr of Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain-Merida).
Thus ensured the 28-year-old australian on his second man in this year’s edition of the race, after he also won 2. stage.
In the overall standings there was no shifts, and before the last stage Sunday, leading the colombian Miguel Ángel López (Astana) by 14 seconds down to Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott).
Egan Bernal (Sky) is 17 seconds after the third, and Nairo Quintana (Movistar) is 25 seconds after the number four.
the Riders were out on a stage, who screamed in an eruption and a possible closure in a massespurt with a flat finale. 169 kilometres were travelled, within the field finishes the race in Barcelona on Sunday.
That was run from Valls Vila-Seca, and an outbreak came off and had a 40 kilometer, again a lead of two minutes.
Here sat Josef Cerny (CCC), the Oscar Riesebeek (Roompot-Charles), Floris De Tier (Jumbo-Visma), Mikel Iturria Italian contemporaries (Euskadi) and Geoffrey Bouchard (AG2R).
Down in the jagtende field sat the favorites, while the pace was turned up, and with 30 kilometers left was the edge down to a little under a minute and a half.
There was set a hard pace in the field, and with 23 kilometres and a minute up to udbryderne it began to look like the contours of a massespurt.
Today’s udbrydere was retrieved and with ten kilometers to target, it was a total field.
In the fiery tempo in the final phase had Danish Niklas Eg (Trek) a trip in the asphalt, when he collided with Astana Pavel Kochetkov, but Niklas Oak came to his feet again after the sound.
With two kilometres to goal attack, Miguel Ángel López so, and he sat for a short period only promoting along with Davide Formolo (Bora), but with a kilometer, again, they were driven into, and Matthews secured the stage victory.
