Jonas Vingegaard wins the 2nd stage and takes the leader jersey, David Gaudu third

The Danish, well led by his team in the final ascent, was ahead of Giulio Ciccone on the line on Sunday, and took the leader jersey in Jasper Philipsen. David Gaudu, first French, closes on the podium of the stage and of the general.

Without Tadej Pogacar, it was up to Jonas Vingegaard to take the pattern costume on the Vuelta, and the Danish has already struck. He won from the 2nd stage of the Tour of Spain, disputed between Alba and Limone Piemonte (Italy), Sunday, August 24. The double winner of the Tour de France preceded on the Giulio Ciccone line (Lidl-Trek) and a David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) found and solid third. Jasper Philipsen, the first red jersey after his victory the day before, is already giving in to the winner of the day.

This stage, all flat to the final ascent of Limone Piemonte (9.8 km at 5.1%), gave birth to the expected scenario: the breakaway of the day, composed of Galvar (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Jakub Otruba (Caja Rural), Sinhué Fernandez (Burgos Burpellet BH) and Liam Slock (Lotto) 5.8 kilometers from the finish, could never believe it. Then, under the impetus of the ineos, Lidl-Trek and Visma-Lease Bike, it is a group peloton, led by a hellish train, which presented itself with the red flame.

Marc Soler (UAE-Emirates-XRG) has tried his luck at 600 meters well, he was swallowed by the best pumnors of this edition. And this little game, Jonas Vingegaard confirms that he has grown enormously in this area since last year. He who ran little this year following his concussion in Paris-Nice, finds the taste for victory since his first race in 2025, the Algarve Tour in February, where he won the general and a stage. It was his third stage victory over the Vuelta, after two in 2023, the year of the tripled general of his training. “At the beginning I did not think I could exceed Ciccone, but I was able to do it after the last turn. It's been a while since I had won, I am happy with my sensations and the team”reacted the winner.

However, the Danish had been taken with a large part of his team in a collective fall 26 km from the finish. On a road that has become slippery with the appearance of the rain, the Danish went to the ground, just like his French teammate Axel Zingle. Once the shoulder is given to the ambulance truck, the tricolor left, unlike Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet, who had dropped earlier and abandoned. But the French training was able to count on the found health of the other leader, David Gaudu.

After a year marked by the galleys, with falls on Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of Italy, and a tour of the anecdotal Ain (39th) in August, the Breton confirms that he appreciates the Tour of Spain, where he won two stages in 2020 and finished 6th of the general last year. Here he is general this Sunday, ahead of Egan Bernal (ineos-grenadiers) and Tom Pidock (Q36.5) but the differences are still very low. Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain-Victorious) is the only favorite to have lost time on Sunday, with 31 seconds of lost on Jonas Vingegaard.