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Double Victory in the Volta Valencia for Evenepoel and Vlasov

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Remco Evenepoel remains the benchmark in time trials at the Volta Valencia. The secured his third individual victory of the season on 2 and – following ‘s win of the New Zealand jersey early in the morning – the sixth for Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe in this year.

also achieved a strong result, second, just eight seconds behind Remco after 17.5 kilometers.

Due to strong winds, the jury and , in consultation with the teams, decided that the competition should be held on normal and that the times would not count towards the overall classification. However, a stage victory was still up for grabs. This made it possible to minimize risk.

“There was still a stage win to grab and I also wanted to respect the organisation. They decided to keep the race go for a stage result and I decided to do a race. We also need to be real sportsmen in our minds and be ready for flexibility as well. For me it was not a big difference because I know I can also ride pretty fast on a normal bike. We decided to race for the victory and I think it was a good decision,” Evenepoel told reporters after the stage. “Aleks and I are in first and second place today, which is a pretty good result for us. We prepared day like it was a normal TT day. It was a good test with a nice result.”

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