La Vuelta Stage 9: The True Contenders Start to Emerge
The hardest stage so far in the Vuelta separates the true contenders from the pretenders
The ninth stage of La Vuelta España served up the first real mountain stage of the race, and the sunbleached landscape of Southern Spain did its best to separate the pretenders from the contenders. Damiano Caruso won the stage atop the brutal Alto de Velefique climb with an absurd long-range attack, while Primoz Roglic, who was closing in extremely fast…
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