Chaves, Orica GreenEdge wins the 6th stage of the Vuelta and regains leadership

USPA NEWS - The Colombian racer Esteban Chaves, Orica GreenEdge, demonstrated in coming to Sierra de Cazorla their Caminito del Rey triumph was no fluke. And he did win the sixth stage, Cordoba-Sierra de Cazorla and 200.3 kilometers, and recovering the red leader's jersey.

The Colombian jumped sharply in the toughest final climb ramps, dealing a fresh blow to the Vuelta and recovering lost the red jersey a day earlier. Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) gave first place to honor his attacking and finishing third, behind Daniel Martin (Garmin-Cannondale). The control firms in Cordoba began with the fall in David de la Cruz (Etixx-Quick Step), aching collarbone operation earlier this month. Shortly after the Slovenian Matej Mohoric (Cannondale-Garmin) also fell.

The peloton did not allow any group to leave ahead until after the 60 kilometer stage, after completing the first time more than 48 km / h. Not without effort, finally they had five men who achieved their goal: Cyril Gautier (Europcar), Niki Terpstra (Etixx-Quick Step), Stephen Cummings (MTN-QHUBEKA), Peter Velits (BMC) and Kristijan Durasek (Lampre-Merida). Later, after several kilometers alone and fall, he contacted Miguel Angel Rubiano (Team Colombia).

The six were understood from the first moment but the peloton was not going to allow excessive leakage accumulate income as Gautier leaving just over three minutes overall. Its margin never exceeded four minutes and started down quickly when Movistar joined the Giant-Alpecin work. Cummings would prove before the rise but end up being hunted 2 kilometers from the finish by the own Chaves, who this Friday will be a litmus test on arrival in La Alpujarra.