Luis León returns to win Valverde in the Vuelta a Murcia

Source: La Opinión

The muleño is imposed for the second consecutive year in the race Murcia after beating in the final sprint on the Gran Vía to the world champion
For the second year, the muleño Luis León Sáchez Gil, of the Astana team, has won the Murcia Cycling Tour-Gran Premio Banco Sabadell. And again he has beaten Alejandro Valverde after both cyclists escaped on the climb to the Cresta del Gallo, where he has decided an exciting test, which also has had a long flight that has managed to crown in first position the Collado Bermejo. In the streets of Murcia, Luis León has launched before the final attack, entering his wheel Valverde, who has not hesitated to applaud his friend.

For Luis León Sánchez Gil, who was fifth in the Tour Down Under, is the first victory of the season, while Valverde adds another second after finishing in the same place of the Tour of the Valencian Community.

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# VueltaCiclistaMurcia2019 Re-attack the Bala and cut Luisle in the final stretch of the Cresta del Gallo! @alejanvalverde seeks his first victory of the year and is providing a great show at the @VueltaMurcia. 8 «on Sánchez, 22» with the leader’s group. -12 km

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The second and last stage departed Beniel at eleven o’clock in the morning. It was a somewhat shorter day than yesterday, where Pello Bilbao, also from Astana, won the victory in San Javier. With a distance of 177 kilometers, the race went through Corvera, Totana, Alhama de Murcia and El Palmar before reaching the Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo de Murcia.

The great battle was fought on the climb to the top of the Cresta del Gallo, just over 12 kilometers from the finish line, as the first and long flight, as expected, did not bear fruit as wanted by its protagonists. In the last climb of the day, when the peloton arrived somewhat punished after climbing the Collado Bermejo, Valverde attacked decisively and Sanchez could not follow his wheel in principle, but then played on the downhill to connect with the Las Luminaries.

«It’s special to win at home and in front of the best runner in the world,» said Luis Leon, who has also expressed his gratitude to the teammates in the formation of Astana for working to make his victory possible. «The first thing I want to do is to thank the team for what has been done in these two days of competition, which has resulted in results because we won first with Pello Bilbao and then with me,» he said, referring to the outcome of the two stages of the Ronda Murcia with finals in San Javier on Friday and in the capital of Segura this Saturday.

The winner of the general has admitted that he passed «a bad time» in the climb to the Cresta del Gallo, high located just over 12 kilometers from the finish line and where he attacked Valverde. «We solved it and I could beat Alejandro, who did the last two kilometers at a strong pace and I got on his wheel, he emptied even more than me in a final stage where we could not talk much because we were going very fast and I was lucky to take the stage and also the general classification, «he said.