This Time I Want to Keep It Until Madrid - Jonas Vingegaard Determined to Stay in Vuelta a España Lead After Regaining Top Spot Overall
Jonas Vingegaard won stage 20 with an 11-second lead, increasing his overall advantage to 1 minute 16 seconds and securing his victory before the final stage.
- On Saturday Jonas Vingegaard, Danish Visma-Lease a Bike rider, won stage 20 at Bola del Mundo after the 1500-meter climb from Robledo de Chavela, extending his lead to one minute 16 seconds over Joao Almeida.
- After the break was caught with three kilometres left, Jonas Vingegaard attacked with a little over one kilometre remaining, leaving Joao Almeida unable to respond and securing a meaningful win after his Angliru summit loss.
- Vingegaard said, "I wanted to win in Bilbao and at the Angliru, but the Bola del Mundo is also very special," after crossing 11 seconds ahead of Sepp Kuss, celebrating his third stage win this year.
- Pidcock finished the penultimate day with a 30-second cushion over Hindley and looks set to secure a Grand Tour podium on Sunday, while organisers shortened the final Madrid stage by five kilometres to 103.6km.
- In a race marred by protests this year, riders had to detour around blockades on Saturday, as pro-Palestinian protesters forced diversions and Madrid police and central government deployed more than 1,500 extra police officers for the finale.
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The Dane Jonas Vingegaard is ahead of his first triumph on the Spanish cycling tour. The winner of the Tour de France 2022 and 2023 built up his lead on Joao Almeida on Saturday with the third stage victory. Felix Gall did not join the Bola del Mundo anymore with the big aces and slipped in the overall classification back to eighth place. The East Tyrolean reached the stage finish as 13th with more than two minutes behind. Vincegaard hung out th…
Jonas Vingegaard sentenced this Saturday La Vuelta a España when the 20th stage was awarded, between Robledo de Chavela and La Bola del Mundo (in the center of the country), in a day in which protesters cut the road to 18 km of goal, which forced the runners to dodge them.The Danish took 22 seconds to his main pursuer, Portuguese Joao Almeida, who finished fifth in the high arrival, so that he extended the difference to a minute and 16 seconds i…
Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) won the 20th and penultimate stage of the Tour d'Espagne Cyclique (World Tour) held on Saturday 164.8 km between Robledo de Chavela and Bola del Mundo, an ascent from 12.4 km to 8.6% including the Alto de Navacerrada. ...
The penultimate stage of the Tour of Spain (Robledo de Chavela - Bola del Mundo; 165.6 km) was won by overall leader Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike), thus securing first place overall.
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