Key Takeaways: Vuelta a España Stage 15

Breaking down how the GC favorites played their hands on the Vuelta's major mountain set piece

Thymen Arensman surged clear from an elite breakaway on the brutally long Sierra Nevada climb to win the Vuelta’s hardest, and highest, mountain stage. Arensman performance through the painfully thin air was so dominant that his closet pursuers, Enric Mas and Miguel Ángel López, who had clipped clear of the lead GC group, crossed the line over a minute …