La Vuelta Stage 10: A Failure to Understand Risk/Reward

A massive breakaway gets clear while a GC leader pushes the limits on a stage that offers a very limited reward

The Vuelta a España’s GC competition has a knack for springing to life when on stages, which at least on paper, appear to be an incoming snoozefest, and today’s jaunt along the Southern Mediterranean coastline once again rose to the challenge. It took the breakaway nearly 100-kilometers of fast and furious racing to get clear, but once they did, the gap…