Solistic winner of the 14th stage, Marc Soler continues the UAE-Emirates training raid

The Spaniard isolated himself in the final ascent on Saturday, and allows his team to obtain a fourth success immediately on this Tour of Spain.

They have no intention of slowing down. The UAE-Team Emirates XRG training won a new bouquet on this 2025 Vuelta, this time through Marc Sole, which won solo The 14th stage between Avilés and the Farrapona. Lagos de Somiedo, in the Asturias, Saturday September 6, in front of the favorites. It is the 7th stage victory over this Vuelta – and the 4th in a row – for the Emirati training, which therefore won half the stages. Marc Soler is the 4th runner of the team to glean a bouquet after Jay Vine and Juan Ayuso (two victories) and Joao Almeida (a victory).

Catalan was placed in the breakaway of 11 runners, notably with the French Bruno Armirail and Léo Bisiaux (Decathlon-Ag2r La Mondiale), which still had 3'30 ahead of the group of favorites at the foot of the final ascent (16.9 km at 5.9%). Marc Soler first accelerated with Johannes Staune Mitett (Decathlon-Ag2r La Mondiale) before forcing to make it bend 16 km from the finish and finish alone with 39 seconds in advance. “I am really happy to win a new victory for the team. I kept my rhythm in the climb, I was waiting for the instructions from behind if João escaped and which I had to demo, but in the end, I had the green light to attack”reacted the winner.

Behind, the presence of their teammate at the front did not prevent the UAE-Team Emirates XRG formation from driving to break the legs of other favorites, and especially Jonas Vingegaard, who had not stun the day before in the terrible slopes of Angliru but had not succeeded in decrapping his main adversary, Joao Almeida.

The favorites waited for the last kilometer to engage in a small explanation initiated by a Jai ​​Hindley (Red-Bull Bora Hansgrohe) found, but Joao Almeida was unable to recover time on the Danish red jersey. He even lost two seconds in the game of bonuses, finishing 3rd in the stage behind Vingegaard. The leader is now 48 seconds ahead of the Portuguese.