Defending champion Primoz Roglic returned to the top of the standings after taking second place on the Alto de la Montana de Cullera in the wheels of Stage 6 winner Magnus Cort. The Dane was the last man standing from a five-man breakaway and held on for a super win despite the red jersey battle going on in his wake.
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Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen roared back into the green jersey with his second win of the race after beating Fabio Jakobsen in a chaotic bunch sprint finale to Stage 5 of La Vuelta. Frenchman Kenny Elissonde is the new race leader after Estonia’s Rein Taaramae was involved in a pile-up inside the final 12km of an otherwise uneventful day.
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Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen won Stage 4 of La Vuelta – and the green jersey – after a thrilling tussle with Frenchman Arnaud Demare on the uphill rise to the finish at Molina de Aragon. An emotional third career win on the Vuelta came just over a year following Jakobsen’s life-threatening crash on the Tour de Pologne. Estonia’s Rein Taaramae retained the red jersey despite a crash near the finish.
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Wout van Aert won the final stage 21 sprint of the Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées, denying Mark Cavendish a record-breaking 35th stage victory, as Tadej Pogačar retained the Yellow Jersey following a sensational three weeks of cycling.
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Tadej Pogacar navigated the 30.8km time trial to Saint-Emilion with ease to put himself on the cusp of a successive Tour de France overall win. The Slovenian held an insurmountable-looking 5’45” lead over second-placed Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) ahead of the penultimate day of riding and took a risk-free approach to the ITT, finishing eighth on a stage won by Wout van Aert.
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