The strongest of this Vueltait was good Jonas Vingegaard ! The Danish of the Visma | Lease a Bike Has the pendulum on time by winning on this 20th stage at the top of the terrible and legendary Bola del Mundo! He thus folds this Tour of Spain And should win this 80th edition this Sunday. Despite the different accelerations of JOAO ALMEIDA (UAE Team Emirates XRG) or Jai Hindley (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), Awesome has never been in difficulty and counted them 1.5 kilometers from the summit to come and win alone. Behind him, no major difference was made in the general classification, alone Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) lost its top 5 and its white jersey for the benefit of Matthew Riccitello (Israel-Premier Tech).
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The summary
In the first two passes of the day, the Alto of the Escondida (9km at 4.1%) and the Puerto de la Paradilla (5.8km at 5.7%), we are witnessing numerous attacks in order to form the breakaway of the day. 35 runners are finally able to extricate themselves from among them Mads Pedersen, Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-trek), Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers), Mikel Rural (Soudal Quick-Step), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon Ag2r) … but behind, the training UAE Team Emirates XRG which controls. The Emirati team leaves very little ahead throughout the day, the gap does not exceed two minutes. In the penultimate ascent of the day, the Puerto de Navacerrada (6.9km at 8%), it explodes in the breakaway and in the peloton, but no favorite is distant.
After a descent and a short valley, the runners will start the terrible climb of Bola del Mundo (12.3km at 9%). Giulio Ciccone et Mikel Rurallast survivors of the escape has only a few tens of seconds ahead of a small peloton led by the UAEwhere we no longer find many people. Among the first favorites to let go, we count the white jersey Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R) and Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike). Mais JOAO ALMEIDA (UAE Team Emirates XRG) does not attack … before arrival in difficult passages and the last 3 kilometers at 12%. The Portuguese accelerates the train, it explodes in what remains of this group, but Jonas Vingegaard, Sepp kiss (Visma | Lease a Bike), Jai Hindley (Red bull-bora-haansgrohe) et Tom Pidcock (Q36.5) manage to follow. Hindley Try to attack in turn, but it holds. And it is ultimately Jonas Vingegaard who goes to the attack and no one can follow. The red jersey makes a nice difference directly and flies towards the win. Vingegaard therefore won his 3rd stage alone on this Vuelta. Behind, Sepp Kuss comes to look for 2nd place, for a double of the Visma! Jai Hindley takes 3rd place, but only managed Pidcock from 5 seconds. The Briton therefore retains his place on the podium. Almeida ultimately only finished 5th in the stage and was simply not strong enough to win this Vuelta. The big losers of the day are Giulio Pellizzari et Felix Gallwho cracked in the final climb. The Italian thus loses his top 5 and his white jersey in favor of Matthew Riccitellowhich made him an impressive final. The Austrian loses his 7th place, exceeded by Sepp kiss.
