Kaden Groves has gained a second consecutive stage on this 12 months’s Vuelta a Espana, edging out a charging Filippo Ganna to say stage 5 on Wednesday.
A comparatively uneventful 186.5km trek from Morella to Burriana ended within the predicted bunch dash, with Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Groves holding off a surging Ganna.
Remco Evenepoel retained the general chief’s purple jersey after ending safely within the pack having picked up helpful time bonuses on the final intermediate dash.
Groves strengthened his maintain on the inexperienced jersey — main the factors standings — following up on his victory the day earlier than.
“It’s a fantastic feeling, the second win of this Vuelta, and two in a row, it’s a great feeling, especially doing it with the green jersey,” Groves stated. “At the end, it was a pretty hectic final today, similar to yesterday but without climbing. The wind and roundabouts made it quite nervous but my team was fantastic again.”
A crash 3km from the end raised the stress however as soon as Groves was positioned into the lead by his teammates he held on regardless of the efforts of Ganna who completed like an specific practice.
Evenepoel gained an intermediate dash to gather bonus seconds that allowed him to extend his lead barely forward of a mountain stage on Thursday.
“Taking the bonus seconds was not necessarily the plan but we were in front and I saw an opportunity, that’s why I just went for it,” he stated.
“It was a nice one to grab. I thought it was just three seconds but in the end they told me it was six [seconds], so it’s pretty nice.”
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😱 Un dash BRUTAL. ¡Revive el ÚLTIMO KM de la etapa de hoy!
🥵 A BRUTAL dash end! Re-live the ultimate km of at the moment’s stage.
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