Jumbo-Visma wins the team time trial and Gesink, first leader – RTVE

Jumbo-Visma has won the inaugural team time trial of the Vuelta a España 2022 and Robert Gesink is the first leader of the race. The Dutch team has won at home, in this start of the Spanish round outside our borders, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Primoz Roglic’s team, seeking its fourth consecutive Vuelta, has won the finish line with a time of 24:40, 13 seconds less than INEOS, which has surpassed Quick-Step, third, by one. The Spanish team Burgos-BH was in charge of opening the Vuelta 2022 and did so with a finish time of 26 minutes and 38 seconds. The purple box started with seven cyclists after the casualties of Manuel Peñalver and Ángel Madrazo, positive for COVID. Israel Premier Tech, first to lose 26 minutesIsrael Premier Tech was the first team to lose 26 minutes with 25:22, with one of the four champions of the Vuelta Ciclista a España that were in the game in this 2022 edition, the British Chris Froome. The next to arrive was Groupama-FDJ, which improved the time of the Israeli team by 29 seconds. Arkea Samsic, without Nairo Quintana after his suspension in the Tour, placed third at the finish line with 26:05. Simon Yates and his team, the BikeExchange, made the lead even more expensive by stopping the clock at 25:11, he dropped Groupama by seven seconds and it seemed that the winner of the stage was going to have to lose less than 25 minutes. able to snatch the first position after having passed with the best time at the intermediate point and was placed third at its arrival. UAE brushed the lead but stayed two seconds behind BikeExchange, there were only six teams left to cross the finish line: Astana , Trek-Segafredo, Quick-Step, INEOS, Movistar and Jumbo-Visma. The Kazakhs achieved a great time at the finish line but they could only be third, momentarily. Jumbo-Visma smashed the clock At the halfway point, after all the teams had passed, Jumbo smashed the clock and was the only one capable of getting below 12 minutes with 11:57, 14 seconds behind Quick-Step. The first to drop below 25 at the finish line was INEOS with 24:53, 18” from BikeExchange, the best teams were beginning to do their thing. Remco Evenepoel’s team, Quick-Step, was only one second behind the ‘ great time’ achieved by INEOS. In ninth place and with half a minute lost, Alejandro Valverde’s Movistar was positioned. With 24:40 and 13 seconds better than those of INEOS, Jumbo-Visma crossed the finish line with Robert Gesink in the lead, the first leader of the Vuelta a Spain 2022.