On Thursday, he did not want to speculate about this scenario. “It’s difficult to plan something like that, you also have to end up just right at the finish. If you’re hanging at the back like a dead bird, that won’t work.” But Gesink made a good impression, just as the whole team drove fast on the crowded roads. Classification man Primoz Roglic, the winner of the past three editions of the Vuelta, immediately took some distance from his competitors.
Two arrests, a few showers and some frustration about road closures, but Vuelta start was above all a big party
