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Martin Pedersen and you may Andy Schleck of Team CSC claimed all round and you may King of one’s Mountains category, correspondingly. Draw Cavendish (T-Mobile Group) won the new points classification and you will Johan van Summeren ( what are the betting odds Davitamon–Lotto) the brand new sprints classification.

“There is an extended and you can challenging climb up having 90k going and so i assume the newest battle to be slightly open after that to the,” the guy said. Remco Evenepoel (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) gone closer to full earn in the Vuelta a good España once a great tumultuous stage to the Alto de Piornal.

Of a lot bikers got caught out-by the brand new split up in addition to points group chief Paul Magnier (Soudal Small-Step), that would perhaps not understand the front of your own battle once more and later on abandoned the new race immediately after a crash.

Certainly their teammates would be Pello Bilbao, who has five top total closes along the Giro d’Italia and you may Tour de France, which have stage gains in racing. Teammate Stewart additional; “It’s the first time I’ll have inked the new race with my change group as opposed to help you a national you to, and then we’re also future having an extremely good group which are aggressive round the the stages and also the GC, particularly having Stevie and Joe.