Stage 8 of the Vuelta Was Raced Today
Given the stage route, every specialist was talking about multiple crashes, but what happened exceeded all expectations. Nobody can accuse us of over-dramatizing. Suffice it to say that, as a result of a mass crash, Tejay van Garderen, Dan Martin and Nacer Bouhanni left the race.
There were less than ten kilometers to the finish when a race motorbike knocked down the stage’s main favorite, which is causing a great deal of talk around the race. Injuries to riders caused by motorized race vehicles have gone beyond all limits.
In the end a small part of the peloton reached the final kilometer, where the sprint was won by yet another promising young rider of the race, Belgian Jasper Stuyven of Trek Factory Racing — which greatly cheered a team that had suffered a lot since the start of the race.
Translated from Georgian with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic), reviewed by the Velorbola editors.
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April 15, 2019
