Extended Highlights - Stage 1 - La Vuelta 2024 - Vídeo Dailymotion

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00:00Welcome to La Vuelta a España 2024.

00:04This 79th edition gets underway in Lisbon,

00:07although not everybody has found it easy navigating their way around the Portuguese capital.

00:15Well, here's Dani Martínez. What's happened to Primoz?

00:18Well, we just came from the hotel, so I don't know.

00:21We're waiting for him too.

00:30And where were you when your colleagues were here?

00:34Not here, yeah. A bit later.

00:37Actually...

00:38You were lost?

00:39No, I was told that it's a date.

00:41And then, yes, I was still waiting at the hotel.

00:45I wanted to have the stage by myself.

00:48And really, yes, I definitely enjoyed this nice crowd today up here.

00:53So, really big thanks, guys.

00:56Roglic is far from the only GC contender,

00:59and with no Pogacar, Vingegaard or Evenepoel,

01:02this race is looking very open indeed.

01:05I'll do my best. The team is motivated.

01:07I think we have a really good team.

01:09Everybody is quite strong.

01:10So, I'm just looking forward to enjoy these days

01:13and, like, always do my best and give everything in the road.

01:18You never know how your body is going to respond.

01:21I'll just see how I'm feeling day by day

01:25and, hopefully, everything goes well.

01:30I'm pretty fresh.

01:31Yeah, definitely different, not doing a Grand Tour beforehand.

01:35More than anything, I'm just looking forward to being here.

01:39Already happy to be here, feeling good and, yeah.

01:49Just 12 kilometres on the menu today,

01:52a high-speed run down the coast between Lisbon and Oeiras.

01:55It's not very technical, but the win could be a factor

01:59as the TT and GC specialists battle it out for the first red jersey.

02:09It's all smiles on the start ramp ahead of this 12-kilometre individual time trial

02:13for Luis Angel Mate, the first rider to roll down the ramp

02:18and to officially get things underway here in La Vuelta a España 2024.

02:23At 40, Mate is the oldest rider in this race,

02:27enjoying his 12th and final Vuelta before retiring at the end of the year.

02:31His opening time of 14.04 would soon be beaten.

02:36Enric Mas was one of the first overall hopefuls to start.

02:39The Spaniard has come second at La Vuelta three times in 2018, 2021 and 2022

02:45and he is aiming high once again.

02:47The Movistar leader going top of the pile in 13 minutes and 14 seconds.

02:52But that time was soon blasted out of the water by Edoardo Affini.

02:56The Italian helped Wismar Lisa Baik win the opening team time trial two years ago,

03:00even wearing red for a day, and 12 minutes 43 would take some beating.

03:07It can always be a bit of a surprise, let's say, the first day of a Grand Tour.

03:13In terms of feeling, you know, you come from altitude, a bit of racing,

03:17but you still need to discover a little bit how the body is really doing,

03:22but I think overall I can be satisfied with my performance.

03:28Affini settling himself down for a long stint in the hot seat,

03:31with nobody really threatening his time as the wind began to pick up.

03:35The favourites getting ready to roll into action.

03:43Well, let's see what this man can do.

03:45The youngest rider in the race, Joshua Tarling,

03:48the European time trial champion of Ineos Grenadiers.

03:52Well, Tarling may be the youngest rider in the race,

03:54but the 20-year-old was tipped as one of today's hot favourites.

03:58The Welshman setting off just before Adam Yates,

04:01who is sharing the leadership at UAE with the home favourite, Joao Almeida.

04:07Tarling was three seconds up on Affini at the intermediate check,

04:11but would he still be leading at the finish line?

04:13This one was going right down to the wire.

04:18By two tenths of a second,

04:22Eduardo Affini has just held on.

04:28Well, Tarling just missing out, but as Affini said,

04:31the first day of a three-week race can throw up all sorts of surprises.

04:35The Italian was finally beaten by the Czech time trial champion,

04:39Matijas Vacek.

04:40Like Tarling, the 22-year-old making his Grand Tour debut,

04:44he went six seconds faster than Affini, averaging over 57 kilometres an hour.

04:53Most of the GC riders were on course by now,

04:56with Primoz Roglic among the last to go.

04:59It was a good day for the Slovenian.

05:01He ended up as the highest ranked of the favourites in eighth place.

05:0517 seconds ahead of Yates, 29 ahead of Carlos Rodriguez

05:09and 36 clear of the defending champion, Sepp Kuss.

05:14Only two riders could now deny Vacek a famous win,

05:17Brandon McNulty and Wout van Aert.

05:21It was an intense tussle between the last two riders out on the course.

05:25They were both within a second of Vacek at the intermediate split.

05:29It would all come down to the final sprint to the finish line.

05:35McNulty, the time is still green

05:38and the USA time trial champion, could he try and add a Grand Tour stage victory?

05:44He comes through.

05:45He takes two seconds to the good of Vacek.

05:50The time's still green, but where is the finish line?

05:53Is he going to get there or is he going to run out of space on the road

05:58by the closest of margins?

06:00It's McNulty who wins the stage.

06:02Wout van Aert takes third spot.

06:05McNulty was disappointed to miss out on a time trial medal

06:08at the recent Paris Olympics,

06:10but the Americans bounce back in some style here at La Vuelta.

06:14A brilliant effort to claim his 14th career win,

06:17it's the second at a Grand Tour after last year's Giro d'Italia.

06:22I really don't know if I expected to win.

06:24I knew if something crazy happened, I could.

06:26So I guess something crazy happened.

06:28I was hoping for something good today,

06:31but this is really hard to believe for me.

06:3312 minutes, there's not really much pacing.

06:35I just felt good and went as hard as I could.

06:38I knew the split I was good,

06:40so I just had to hold on and give everything I had.

06:42So that was just full from the start.

06:46McNulty winning just ahead of Vacek and van Aert,

06:49with Stefan Kung fourth quickest.

06:51Roglic and Almeida both finished inside the top ten.

06:54McNulty's already led several stage races this year,

06:57including the UAE Tour and Paris Nice.

06:59He'll be the first man in the red jersey tomorrow.

07:04He also leads the points classification,

07:06though he'll be lending that green jersey to van Aert on stage two.

07:12And Kung will be in polka dots

07:14as the race's first mountains points are dished out.

07:18Vacek leads the youth classification outright,

07:21so the Czech rider will be wearing white tomorrow.

07:24We're going to be heading north from Cascais to Ourém

07:27with a punchy final that could catch a few riders out.

07:30Do join us then, and thanks for watching.

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