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The King of the Grand Tour Sprints? | Vuelta a España Stage 1 Analysis & Stage 2 Preview | THEMOVE+

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Lance Armstrong

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4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin break down Jasper Philipsen's impressive opening stage win at the Vuelta a España, which sees him take his 14th career Grand Tour stage win and his second Grand Tour leader's jersey of the 2025 season. Before they go, they preview tomorrow's summit finish, which will see an early showdown between the top GC contenders, and how they think the race will unfold, and who presents the best betting value.

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0:00.0

Yeah, to me, we talk a lot about like the difference of the tour versus the other races. And you're thinking, well, how could that be true? Because these are all professional races. Today you could visibly see like when they were showing camera shots of the Peloton. Like it was visibly easier than stage one of the tour of France. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you know,, it's the stress level. The stress level is just not there. You know, there's like there's not, I mean, there's not even 20% at stake compared to the Tour de France. It's like in the tour, okay, this is, this is where it needs to happen. Everybody's at the tip of their toes. This is never the case in the Tour of Spain.

0:39.3

The Tour of Spain is relaxed.

0:43.9

Everybody, welcome back to the Move Plus.

0:45.7

I'm Spencer Martin.

0:46.5

I'm here with Johann Bernille.

0:48.0

We are breaking down stage one of the Valta, Spain.

0:50.9

And then at the end, we will bolt on a little episode of outcomes where

0:55.2

we predict stage, tomorrow, stage two. Johan, but just to catch everybody up, stage one,

1:01.1

sprint stage in Italy. Nothing makes sense. We have Valta, Spain, starting with a sprint stage

1:05.8

in another country. Jasper Phillips and wins. Ethan Vernon second. Orias Ular, third.

1:12.3

I still don't really know how to say his name, but I should because he was also third on stage one of the Giro to tell you.

1:17.9

But it's Or Luis O'Laur.

1:21.6

Or Luis O'Lar.

1:23.9

I remember him coming out of seemingly nowhere at the Giro, but at this point, it is.

1:29.3

You know, he was already, he was on, if I'm not mistaken, I don't know if he was on

1:34.3

Kacharudal, I'm going to say, maybe last year or two years ago.

1:39.3

He's now also double Venezuelan champion time trial and road.

1:49.0

Yeah, I mean, in those sprints where there's not really a huge, huge, huge,

1:51.3

huge high speed with the big lead out train.

1:53.2

I mean, pretty good result for him.

1:54.8

Yeah.

1:58.0

And then my guy, Mads Pedersen, your pick, yes, for Phillips and wins. Like easy, freakishly easy.

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