Sprinting to a win

The wind up:

The wind up: (Image credit: Sirotti)

What's it like to take a sprint victory in the Vuelta a España? German Robert Förster knows, as he was victorious in Sunday's bunch sprint in Almussafes - saving Gerolsteiner's race appearance in Spain - and described how it went down: With eight kilometres to go, his teammates Heinrich Haussler and René Haselbacher took him onto their wheels, leading him and keeping him out of the wind. "With 2 km to go, Haussler fell back and Hasi wanted to go to the front, but I kept calling him: 'Not yet, Hasi! Take it easy, it's too early, it's too early,'" Förster wrote in his daily Vuelta diary on Radsportnews.com.

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