Key Takeaways: Vuelta a España Stage 2

Breaking down an impressive and surprisingly sprint win on the Vuelta's opening road stage

Aug 20, 2022

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Sam Bennett shattered a two-year-long grand tour stage winless streak by surging ahead of a fading Mads Pedersen and holding off a mispositioned pre-stage favorite Tim Merlier in the final few hundred meters of stage 2 at the 2022 Vuelta a España. While Bennett’s win came compliments of his nearly endless raw sprinting power, it was also greatly assiste…

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