Surprise British teenager, Roglic freezes

British teenager James Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease A Bike) decided in his spectacular finish to the introductory stage of the Catalonia cycling race. A few meters ahead of the destination overtook Australian Tibor del Gross (Alpecin-Deceunck), who had a nice advantage on the last short climb, but has completely ran out of power in the last meters.

The seven -speed race he won last year Tadej PogacarBut this time it is not at the start, it started in bad weather. Rain and low temperatures at Costa Brava have been hampered by cyclists for most of the tests, 178.6 kilometers long. In an extremely interesting finish, 19-year-old Brennan, who was looking forward to winning the race for the VN Email in France days ago, replaced twenty meters behind in the last 100 meters and at the same time repelled the Australian attack The smoking groves (Alpecin-Deceunck), who won second place.

Roglic among the main favorites

Slovenian champion Primož Roglič (Red Bull-organ-Hansgrohe) that at Juan Ayusua member of the UAE Team Emirates-Xrg, is considered the main candidate for the final victory, he won the finish line as the 15th, and is in fifth place in the overall ranking.

For Roglic, the main stages will be the third, fourth and sixth, which will all end with the climb, but also the last stage, traditional in Barcelona with numerous crossbars of Montjuica, still offers the opportunity to move in the overall ranking. Tomorrow, rare sprinters in the race could come to their account.

Four Slovenes are racing along the Kisovcan after Catalonia. Gal glivar (Alpecin-Deceunck) took 52 with more than two minutes behind Matevž Govekar (Bahrain-Victorious) was five minutes and 40 seconds (96th), Jan Tratnik (Red Bull-organ-Hansgrohe) and Domen Novak (UAE Team Emirates-Xrg), however, drove to the finish line (+ 13:13).