The general leader, the Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard, will be crowned as a champion this Sunday in Madrid.
Photo: EFE – Javier Lizón
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Jonas Vingegaard liquidated this Saturday the return to Spain after being awarded alone this Saturday the victory in the queen stage. The Danish, Chief of Rows of the Visma | Lease Bike and leader of the general classification, conquered the world's ball and consecrated virtual champion.
This Sunday, in Madrid, the Scandinavian will take his walk of La Victoria because he and his team knew how to endure the rhythm of the Pedalists of the UAE Team Emirates, who never found a space to attack in this twentieth day of competition.
The 165.6 kilometers between the exit in Robledo de Chavela and the arrival in the world ball counted an accumulated slope of 4,226 meters, the highest of the entire race. The layout included five mountain ports: two third category, one second, one first and the end high, cataloged as special.
Egan Bernal, in the escape of the day
The Colombian Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) was part of the escape of the day in the company of Italian Giulio Ciccone, the Spanish Mikel Landa, the Dutch Jardi Van der Lee and the Frenchman Bruno Armirail, who was the first to suffer before wear and was hunted by the squad.
Landa decided to attack alone when there were 16 kilometers for the goal. Ciccone and Egan managed to capture it, while Van der Lee could not keep the pace and stayed. The Colombian resisted a little more, but after a few minutes he also left the head of the race.
In parallel, the Pedalists of the UAE Team Emirates imposed an aggressive and intense rhythm for João Almeida, the second in the general classification, could attack the leader Jonas Vingegaard, well guarded by his companions of the visma | Lease bike.
Vingegaard waited the right moment
When three kilometers were missing, Ciccone and Landa were reached by the squad. In the end, with just three kilometers to get to the goal, it was another battle for the stage victory than by changes in the general, since there was no maneuvering space to think that the red shirt could change the owner.
Jai Hindley (Red Bull) launched an attack two kilometers from the finish line and Vingegaard stayed to his wheel. Almeida found neither the moment nor the space to trim him distance, but that Danish himself showed that he had more strength than his rivals and went alone towards the finish line.
The Danish crossed the goal after three hours, 56 seconds and 23 hours of pedaling. The second place was for his teammate and Gregario, the American Sepp Kuss, who completed the tour with 11 seconds of difference. The podium of the day was completed by Hindley.
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