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Schelling wins in Leitza, is the new leader and gets angry

2023-04-04T20:19:42.175Z


Controversy over the five kilometers of descent towards the finish line with the peloton almost intact


Dutch athletes do not usually have a filter, see Van Gaal, or Johan Cruyff.

Sincerity they call it.

Ide Schelling wins in Leitza, he smiles for having done it, but they put a microphone in front of him and he rants.

"I don't understand how the UCI allows finals like this", and he congratulates himself: "Fortunately there were no falls, because it was a perfect descent for accidents to arrive".

Five kilometers of descent to Leitza.

The problem is not the descent, but that seventy cyclists reached the top of Arkiskil together after eleven kilometers of ascent in which no one wanted to break the peloton.

So the most skilled, including Schelling, sought their lives in a section no more dangerous than the Poggio de la Milano-San Remo, for which no one complains.

And without roundabouts or medians like many of the final stages of the Tour.

"It's a bit embarrassing as a final," said Gaudu, who finished third.

But Leitza is not Sanremo.

The Navarrese town is known for Iñaki Perurena, the stone lifter who is also an actor and poet;

or for some scenes from the film

Ocho apellidos vascos

, but long before, when TV was in black and white, the paper-making town rose to fame for a program in which Patxi Astibia, an aizkolari, was exhibited, facing a world champion track cyclist, Guillermo Timoner.

He won cycling.

Unity is strength, was the title of that television space with millionaire audiences.

On the way to Leitza no one disunited the peloton, and that was what caused even the winner to feel comfortable.

And that Mikel Landa tried, another episode of landismo, who went out on the road as an orphan of Pello Bilbao, sick, who stayed in bed.

In Saldias, Carapaz made a feint, Enric Mas and Vingegaard came out to his wheel, and when calm seemed to arrive, Mikel pressed.

It seemed crazy because there were almost 50 kilometers left to the finish line.

Landa was epic, the favorites were patient and the adventure faded as the kilometers went by, although the rebel scratched three bonus seconds in something that was previously called a flying goal and the marketing has become a special sprint, although there was

not

even

sprint.

The last ascent remained, but it was not enough.

Long yes, but soft, at 3% on average;

nothing for more than half of the peloton, even more comfortable if the teams of the applicants circulate to tratran.

That is why there was danger in relegation, and Schelling, the winner, got angry, and since Itzulia is not the League, he will not be penalized for four stages as if he were a footballer angry with the referee.

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Source: elparis

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