Vuelta Stage Report: Stage 11 was always going to be for the sprinters, but there are not many of them left in the 2022 Vuelta a Espaa. It was BikeExchange-Jayco’s Kaden Groves who was fastest. Nothing changed on the GC, but Remco Evenepoel lost World champion Julian Alaphilippe in a bad crash and ended the stage in an ambulance. The final kilometre of stage 11A perfect lead-out for Kaden GrovesKaden Groves won the bunch sprint of the eleventh stage on Wednesday, ahead of Danny van Poppel and Tim Merlier. After a 191.2 kilometre stage marked by headwinds on the Spanish coast, the Australian from BikeExchange-Jayco was the fastest in Cabo de Gata. Remco Evenepoel’s overall lead was never in danger.The classification leaders at the startFernando Escartn: “A day for sprinters to put their teams to work. The stage features some steep slopes but no notable difficulties, so a mass arrival to the finish-line is expected. Sprinters will have to know when to make the most of their options as this edition does not lend itself particularly well to sprinting opportunities. The wind may play a very important role in Cabo de Gata.”Stage 11 profileFive riders didn’t start due to positive covid tests. Simon Yates and Pavel Sivakov, 5th and 9th on the general classification, were the big names. Equipo Kern Pharma lost three riders to covid.The start was from the El Pozo factory, one of Spain’s biggest prepared meat producersThe first part of the stage was in Murcia on the…
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