Castroviejo make Movistar leader

Large door for Olympic Castroviejo 25 recent signing Eusebio Unzue team and Olympic time trial route and London. Stylet was flown to victory through the streets of the baton, to reach the bullring, where his team scored 18:51 minutes, an average of 52.2 km / hour. The telephone squad, which came with the five runners needed to mark time and without the defending champion Juan Jose Cobo among the elect, excelled in 10 seconds to Rabobank, Omega Pharma and BMC. The powerful wave could Movistar also with British Sky's Chris Froome, who had to settle for fifth place at 12 seconds. In the same brands were the Alberto Contador of Saxo Bank, seven to 14 seconds and Katusha "Itching" Rodriguez, eight to 15. Among the favorites, Igor Anton was something out with the ninth place of Euskaltel Euskadi to 38 seconds behind the winner. A victory for a team that was favorite, but the motivation to run home to his audience and made possible a dream "is almost like winning the Vuelta," as Valverde in goal. Movistar will come with the red jersey on the first stage Castroviejo online. Followers overall peers Javier Moreno, Beñat Intxausti, Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde. Juanjo Cobo, who on Friday had already confessed that he was not in the best possible time, "exploded" in the past and could not enter hectometers alongside their peers. After 18 years of absence, the Vuelta returned to Pamplona, ​​and did so in a festive progressive despite the 40 degree heat. He had the honor of giving the "txupinazo" on the ramp of the Plaza del Castillo a team of land, Caja Rural San Fermin wearing uniforms, white with red stripes. And the last team to go was the Movistar, causing delirium. No lack of "horns" that often results in road cycling.The first took the Garmin, which lost three units in a fall. One of the favorite teams came out cold as the first important reference to the Belgian Philippe Gilbert BMC (19.03 minutes), which exceeded the Orica GreenEdge, who was not at the level that led to victory in the recent Eneco Tour. The Gesink and Mollema of Rabobank was the front with 19 minutes flat, so the Dutch sat waiting in the arena to climb the podium or not. Nice illusion, but the exit ramp leading loosened adrenaline Miura. One was the Sky, which threatened with the best record in the mile 8 with two seconds on the Movistar and 4 regarding Saxo Bank, but the British fleet lost steam in the climb to the Calle Santo Domingo in the paving The Estafeta, where his train derailed slightly. Alberto Contador fell behind the group to five riders and managed to stick to the record of the great British rival. The Spaniard finished "happy and feeling good." But the past were the first. Men's Movistar, know the terrain running of the bulls knew better than its rivals. Especially in those cobblestones where lives the San Fermin festival. Castroviejo gritted his teeth and pulled the winning car. The others stuck with struggling to wheel corridor Getxo, Spain against the runners-up. It was planned as a leader who would dress, but the honor went Castroviejo, August following their happy. London Olympic route and time trial, which was ninth, and now in his first year at Movistar, opens the red jersey of the Tour. A true "txupinazo". The Vuelta continues in Navarra for the dispute of the second stage between Pamplona and Viana, of 181.4 kilometers, one of the few options that will have the sprinters in this year.