Tag: Arensman

Stage 14 – 182km and 4,950m of vertical gain. Brutal.170 riders would take the start today but the same number wouldn’t make it to the finish in Superbagnres. With almost 5000m of elevation gain, four categorized climbs, on and off rain and misty conditions this stage was always going to be difficult.Despite the difficulties there was still a large number of riders who wanted to be in the break of the day and the pace was on from kilomter zero. No groups could get more than a few seconds lead though and for a number of minutes it was only the big green clad figure of Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) who could create any sort of gap over the peloton.Milan wanted…

Vuelta Stage Report: Young Dutchman, Thymen Arensman took his biggest win on the monster climb of the Sierra Nevada. Behind; the GC men all attacked the red jersey of Remco Evenepoel, but the Belgian weathered the storm to only lost a few seconds going into the last rest day of this Vuelta a Espaa. The final kilometre of stage 15Thymen Arensman won the Queen Stage of the Vuelta a Espaa. The Dutch DSM rider was the best on the Sierra Nevada, where the finish was on Alto Hoya de la Mora at over 2,500 metres altitude. Enric Mas and Miguel Angel took second and third places. Remco Evenepoel had to let Primoz Rogli ride away from him in the final,…