Biniam Girmay made the perfect debut for his new team NSN when he narrowly claimed the opening stage win of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana in a reduced bunch sprint, whilst Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe and Remco Evenepoel put on an impressive show of strength thanks to a powerful late attack by Giulio Pellizzari.
The stage was marked by Red Bull’s taking the race by the horns late on, up the one climb of the day, the Cat 3. Puerto de los Madroños, then firing their massively promising young Italian racer Pellizzari up the road with around 18 kilometres to go.
How it unfolded
An early attack by Mats Wenzel (Kern Pharma) and Diego Pablo Sevilla (Polta VisitMalta) was then joined by Danny van der Tuuk (Euskatel-Euskadi) and Lewis Adam (APS Pro Cycling by Team Cadence Cyclery).
A brief attempt to bridge across by Hamish Armitt (Novo Nordisk) failed to flourish and the Briton sat up and waited for the bunch. The race then settled into a holding pattern for more than 100 kilometres although a gap hovering…
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