Extended Highlights - Stage 3 - La Vuelta Femenina 24 by Carrefour.es

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30/4/2024

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00:00Basically I was just in the right position at the right time with teammates to take care of me right from the beginning.

00:06Crashes were happening and I kept being safe, playing it smart.

00:11And then in the final, yeah, my teammate Kristen was there. She went at 500 full gas and she is so strong.

00:17I knew that no one would be able to come around. I got to choose my sprint when I wanted it to happen.

00:23Yeah, just unbelievable to come with the win.

00:30After Alison Jackson danced her way to victory yesterday, we head into the third stage of La Vuelta a Femenina 2024.

00:37Mariana Voss will be hoping for better after getting caught up in yesterday's crashes,

00:41but this will also be an important day for the GC contenders with lots of climbing on the menu.

00:51The riders rolling out of Lucena this afternoon with the shade over 130km to cover on the road to Teruel.

01:01Today's outing is a lumpy one, and even if there is only a single categorised climb,

01:06there is almost twice as much elevation gain as yesterday over 2000m.

01:11That is bad news for a pure sprinter like Charlotta Cole, but potentially good news for an enterprising breakaway.

01:21There was only a solitary rider in today's breakaway, Mireya Benito of AGM.

01:26The Spanish time trial champion enjoys a day out at the front,

01:29and she had built a lead of almost five minutes by the time the live pictures began with just over 60km to go.

01:35The peloton following her on to the day's climb, the Alto Fuente de Rubielos, 6.1km at 6.2%.

01:42Today's outing actually boasted the most climbing of any stage this week,

01:46so it was no surprise to see a lot of women struggling.

01:50Movistar's Emma Norsgaard had unfortunately abandoned earlier in the day,

01:54today in suffering with an elbow injury sustained yesterday,

01:57and there were four non-starters, including Anna Henderson, who broke her collarbone yesterday,

02:02and Marta Cavalli, who is still finding her form after that big crash at the Tour de France FAM back in 2012.

02:09Alison Jackson powered to victory yesterday, but this wasn't her kind of dance floor, the Canadian also suffering,

02:15as was her fellow Paris-Roubaix winner Lizzie Deignan,

02:18who's already back in action remarkably after breaking her arm at the Tour of Flanders.

02:22Up at the front, meanwhile, Benito helped herself to a maximum haul of 6.1km,

02:27and she was able to climb to the top of the climb in less than an hour.

02:31She was also able to climb to the top of the climb in less than an hour.

02:35Up at the front, meanwhile, Benito helped herself to a maximum haul of 6 Queen of the Mountains points,

02:40but that wasn't enough to take the polka dot jersey,

02:43as Caroline Swinkles pounced for second place from the peloton, increasing her haul to 10 points.

02:49Things eased off a bit after the descent, allowing riders who had been distanced,

02:53such as Cole and Jackson, to get back into the main peloton,

02:56yesterday's stage winner even doing a bit of bead-on duty.

03:00The peloton were still training Benito by over four and a half minutes,

03:03when Grace Brown decided to shake things up, the winner of Liege-Bastogne-Liege going on the attack.

03:09And that put the rest of the bunch on high alert before the intermediate sprint.

03:13Benito and Brown took the six and four bonus seconds, leaving two for the peloton,

03:18and it was the race leader Blanca Vaz who sprinted to take them,

03:21ahead of Olivia Baril and Rihanna Marcus.

03:24Brown was soon caught again, but her move brought the gap down to three and a half minutes.

03:30Demi Vollering then moved just ahead of the peloton to collect a bottle from a soigneur,

03:35and decided to kick on, but nobody was going to let the overall favourite go clear.

03:40You can see we're all strung out now, Little Trek putting in the effort now,

03:44and Lisa Longo-Borghini trying to close the gap to Demi Vollering.

03:47Maria Benito was still plugging her way up at the front,

03:50but her hopes of a second career victory began to fade as Visma Lisabike began to chase in earnest.

03:58The gap soon dropping to under a minute, Visma working on behalf of Vaz,

04:02but Vaz was also preparing to defend her red jersey.

04:07After more than a hundred kilometres solo at the front, Benito was finally caught with 7.5 to go,

04:12a well-deserved pat on the back from her teammates.

04:15And then it was time for the sprinters to get their game faces on,

04:18but unfortunately there was another late crash.

04:22And oh, we've got a big crash in the peloton, 2.5 kilometres to go, 2.7 to go, big, big crash behind.

04:28Vaz got through unscathed, as did Cole, German champion Lianna Lippert, leading out the sprints.

04:34And this is it, Lianna Lippert on the front, Mariana Vaz on the wheel,

04:38yellow jersey there for the rider from Visma Lisabike.

04:41Her team has done so much hard work here, we're inside the final hundred metres.

04:44Charlotte O'Call as well for Team DS and Fermanick,

04:47sprinting now, Mariana Vaz has got it though, celebration for Vaz, and she wins by over a bike length.

04:53Wow, wow, wow, what a victory for Vaz.

04:58The queen of cycling strikes again.

05:00That's road win number 252 for Mariana Vaz, after brilliant work from her team, Visma Lisabike.

05:07Vaz was left frustrated after getting caught up in traffic yesterday,

05:11but she was head and shoulders above the rest here,

05:14the 36-year-old adding to her two stage victories from last year.

05:18Very happy and satisfied.

05:21Yesterday we already worked hard and tried hard and we had some bad luck in the final.

05:27And today we went again all in, all the girls worked really hard for this

05:35and of course it's really nice to be able to finish it all.

05:38So, yeah, very happy with this win.

05:43Vaz taking her fourth win of the season ahead of Cole and Olivia Baril,

05:47with Ingvild Goskien and Lily Williams rounding out the top five.

05:53Thanks to those two bonus seconds she took at the intermediate sprint,

05:57Vaz remains the race leader by just one second from Vaz.

06:00Longa Borghini is the best of the rest at 11 seconds.

06:05Vaz also takes over leadership of the points classification from Jackson.

06:09She's now up to 65 points, with Vaz joining the Canadian champion on 50.

06:15And Svinkels remains our Queen of the Mountains with 10 points,

06:18followed by the day's most aggressive rider, Benito.

06:22The sprinters should be in action again on Wednesday on an easier day

06:25from Molina de Aragon to Zaragoza.

06:27Do join us then and thanks for watching.

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