Is there something piquant missing from your life? Last but by no means least, the final grand tour of the year has lived up to its reputation as a red, hot, spicy race. We’re prolonging that pleasure with our A-Z of the 71st Vuelta a Espana where we’ll be celebrating all the highs and none some of the lows to the soundtrack of this year’s race: El Ganador (Winner) by Marta Sanchez.
Orica-Bike Exchange’s Simon Yates attacked in the final few kilometres of the race and accelerated away to solo across the line some 20 seconds ahead of Luis Leon Sanchez (Astana), who sprinted out of the chasing bunch ahead of Fabio Felline (Trek-Segafredo), who recorded his second consecutive podium. The main contenders all finished together, so Darwin Atapuma (BMC) stays in red.
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Stage winner Gianni Meersman was superbly steered by teammate Zdenek Stybar through a nervous crash-marred finale, launching his sprint from 200 metres to take his second victory in this Vuelta. Fabio Felline and Kevin Reza, who had too much ground to make up, rounded out the podium. Race leader Darwin Atapuma and the other leading contenders dodged the two crashes within last 3km to finish safely in the pack.
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