The battle for the breakaway started immediately after the start. On the successive climbs, several groups formed, and eventually a large group managed to get clear. Armirail was attentive and made it into the group that moved clear at the front. The Frenchman then spent a large part of the day in the breakaway, playing an important role for Team Visma | Lease a Bike.<\/p>\n
With the Alto de Aitana approaching, the gap to the remaining breakaway riders gradually decreased. On the 22-kilometer final climb, the pace in the group of favorites increased further. Armirail was eventually unable to stay with the best climbers, after having spent many kilometers in the breakaway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The battle for the breakaway started immediately after the start. On the successive climbs, several groups formed, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[249234,4985,101,249232,249233,56,54,55,249235],"class_list":["post-754981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-000-meters-of-elevation-gain-bruno-armirail-spent-the-entire-day-in-the-breakaway","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike-has-completed-a-tough-ninth-stage-of-la-vuelta-a-espana-over-the-188-kilometer-route-from-villajoyosa-to-alto-de-aitana","tag-the-riders-faced-more-than-5","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-while-sepp-kuss-crossed-the-finish-line-in-eleventh-place-the-victory-went-to-race-leader-enric-mas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}