Race Report: On a day that was expected to go to the sprinters, and favorite John Degenkolb in particular, it all came down to a messy, scrappy finish with a young rider from the best young team of the year taking his first professional win. Kristian Sbaragli of MTN-Qhubeka outfoxed everyone and gave the African squad yet another famous win.Were one day away from the rest day and for most of the riders it cant come soon enough. Its been a first week of high drama and even higher climbs, and weve not even reached the northwest yet. Riders have hit the ground, hit the barriers and hit the race vehicles.As the day started 182 riders rode out of Valencia on route to Castelln but this was soon to change as Australian wunderkind, and stage winner, Caleb Ewan (Orica-GreenEDGE) was suffering at the back50km in and he was gone.Mass EscapeClimbing through the hillier section in the early portion of the stage, several riders made bids to get away, including one from perennial trier Sylvain Chavanel (IAM-Cycling) but eventually a group of 37 rode away. With only 182 riders in the race this should really have been described as a split in the peloton but all the GC riders were in the second group. Three more riders rode in no-mans land for a while before finally making contact with the lead bunch.Stage 10 started from the port of ValenciaThis group had a rider, or riders, from just about every team so...
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