The Uruguayan Caja Rural/Seguros RGA corridor took advantage of the last curve on the cobblestones of Largo de Santo Amaro, in Beja, for us last 350 meters materialize with a victory in the first stage of the Volta ao Alentejo/ Crédito Agrícola, the supremacy that his team showed on the road throughout the 168 kilometers.
The imposing Keep of Beja Castle “confirmed” Thomas Silva’s first victory and first yellow jersey as a professional, who appeared like an arrow on the slope of the goal and finished off a perfect work by his teammate Iúri Leitão.
They lined up for the match in Castro Verde 124 runners representing eighteen teams, with the stage being marked by an escape of nine runners who within a kilometer 45 they had a 9´25” advantage. The alarms sounded and the Spanish team Caja Rural Seguros RGA took to the race with the aim of, first reduce time and then in the final thirty kilometers, cancel escape.
A 15 kilometers from Beja the peloton became compact, what served the objectives of the Caja Rural, that having studied the arrival the day before, achieved victory and stage and leadership of “Alentejana”.
Thomas Silva was “very happy with the victory, which gave substance to the team’s magnificent work. If I can win the round ? Let's go day by day, but I will do everything for it”, finished.
A second stage, the distance 180,9 kilometers, departs from one of the wine capitals, in the Vidigueira case, and will end in the “City of 25 April ", Grândola, either to the sound of the always remembered “Grândola Vila Morena” will welcome the Volta ao Alentejo/ Crédito Agrícola peloton.
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Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
