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La Vuelta Stage 7: The Mountains Offer Hidden Clarity

La Vuelta Stage 7: The Mountains Offer Hidden Clarity

On the surface, the first mountain stage of La Vuelta clouds the overall picture, but if we look deeper, it offers a clear look at the real GC contenders

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Spencer Martin
Aug 20, 2021
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The first true mountain stage of this Vuelta a España, which was supposed to give us a clearer, unclouded view of the overall classification, accomplished the opposite and placed more riders inside a minute of the overall lead than we had the day prior.

After a frantic fight to make it into the massive early breakaway, Michael Storer won the stage, which…

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