The opening team time trial of the
Vuelta a Espana was marked by the heavy rain that fell on Barcelona throughout the stage and mishaps for Jumbo-Visma and INEOS Grenadiers that caused both squads to lose time. Things didn't go well for UAE Team Emirates either.
DSM ended up winning by hundredths of a second over Movistar Team and 6 seconds ahead of EF Education-EasyPost and Soudal Quick-Step. Thus, among the favorites,
Enric Mas and
Remco Evenepoel, second and first of the last Spanish race, are the best finishers. Thus, the worst finishers were Geraint Thomas, Primoz Roglic,
Jonas Vingegaard, Juan Ayuso and Joao Almeida. Vingegaard punctures which caused Jumbo to lose meaningful time, whilst
Eddie Dunbar and Laurens de Plus were among the GC contenders who went down.