Team Leopard Trek, winner of the day: Vuelta Stage 1

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The Astana team starts this Tour of Spain with a good fourth place, 10 seconds behind Team Leopard Trek, winner of the day.

 

Robert Kiserlovski tells us "It was quite a difficult and dangerous time trial. Since my crash in Paris-Nice, I’m still apprehensive, and I confess that I was scared on descents and narrow roads." Indeed, the young Croat made an impressive crash in the 7th stage of the last Paris-Nice, "I had a broken vertebra and my osteopath told me that it will be a year for healing is complete, then Meanwhile, I have to stay vigilant!" At the announcement of the results, Robert explains, "We are satisfied, I think we made a good ride, we all started together with the right pace and we had a good harmony. We get a satisfactory ranking, it's good for the team now, then in few days, at the Sierra Nevada, the hard work begins. "

 

The team manager Giuseppe Martinelli declared himself "satisfied! I'm happy with the team’s perfomance. They have all been as strong as each other one. We stayed a few days here and we were well prepared, it's good for the morale of the team to start with a good result like today! "