Vuelta: Roglic goes into the red jersey
Defending champion Primoz Roglic (Slovenia / Jumbo-Visa) has set the course for a renewed overall victory at the great beat remedy of the Vuelta favorites.
The time-back Olympic champion moved his competitors in the rain on the long final rise of the 17th stage and conquered the red jersey of the leader of the suspended Norwegian Odd Cristian Eiking (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert), which also crashed.
Roglic's starting position for the Vuelta Triple after 2019 and 2020 is shiny: it is 2:22 minutes before the Spaniard Enric Mas (Movistar) and already 3:11 in front of his teammate Miguel Angel Lopez (Colombia).
Also Giro winner Egan Bernal (Colombia / Ineos Grenadiers) could no longer compete on the way to the Lagos de Covadonga in Asturias, he broke out about seven kilometers in front of the goal and lost more than one and a half minutes. In the overall standings Bernal Sixster is with more than four minutes behind.
Roglic's teammate Sepp Kiss (USA) was day-to-day. Previously, it went on the 185.8 km stages twice about the Collada Llomena, which was the first time in the Vuelta program.
The 18th section leads the driver field on Thursday of Salas over 162.6 km high to Altu d'El Gamoniteiru. The 76th Spain cycle tour ends on Sunday with 33 km time trial to Santiago de Compostela - Roglic had won the gold medal in Tokyo in this discipline.
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Tour-de-France winner Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia / UAE) has left the Vuelta to build its form for the World Cup in Flanders (18th to 26th September).
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