Romain Bardet showed his climbing prowess with a dominant Stage 14 victory at the Vuelta a Espana. The Team DSM rider was part of the breakaway and went clear in the final kilometres to claim a long-awaited win at the race. Odd Christian Eiking stays in red on a gruelling day in the mountains.
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Frenchman Florian Senechal beat Italy’s Matteo Trentin in a surprise two-up sprint in Stage 13 after a scrappy finale saw favourite Fabio Jakobsen waylaid by a flat tyre. With the green jersey out, Deceuninck-QuickStep’s Senechal pocketed his first Grand Tour stage win on a day splits in the pack saw Egan Bernal claw back five seconds on his GC rivals.
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One day after having his pocket picked just 200 metres from the finish, Magnus Cort bounced back with a remarkable Stage 12 victory in a reduced bunch sprint in sweltering Cordoba. The Danish powerhouse held off Italy’s Andrea Bagioli for his second win of this Vuelta on a day Primoz Roglic hit the deck, again, and Odd Christian Eiking retained the red jersey.
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Primoz Roglic broke Magnus Cort’s heart to take his second win of La Vuelta after outkicking big rival Enric Mas on the ramped finale to Stage 11 once both riders had blasted past the last man standing from the day’s breakaway in Valdepenas de Jaen. Norway’s Odd Christian Eiking dug deep to retain the red jersey with a solid 10th place.
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Primoz Roglic made a statement of intent in Stage 10 – and was then brought back down to earth with a bang. A crash on the final descent wiped out any advantages the Slovenian had made on his main GC rivals on a day he tactically conceded the red jersey to Odd Christian Eiking. The Norwegian finished fifth as Baby-faced assassin Michael Storer doubled up after staring from the breakaway.
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