Carapaz satisfied after limiting losses on Roglic and Jumbo in opening TTT at Vuelta

Vuelta Espana 2022 - 77th edition - 1st stage - Utrecht - Utrecht 23,3 km 19/08/2022 - Richard Carapaz (ECU - INEOS Grenadiers) - photo Rafa Gomez/SprintCyclingAgency©2022
Richard Carapaz rides in TTT with his Ineos Grenadiers squad, the team placing second (Image credit: Rafa Gomez/SprintCyclingAgency)

Late on Friday Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) expressed a quiet satisfaction at his squad limiting their losses to a scant 13 seconds on winners Jumbo-Visma in the Vuelta a España’s opening team time trial.

On a day when the Dutch team proved to be a level above all the other formations, QuickStep-AlphaVinyl were the only other squad to come remotely near Jumbo-Visma, losing 14 seconds, while BikeExchange-Jayco were adrift by more than double that time.

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Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.

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