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The Portuguese cyclist lost four seconds to Jonas Vingegaard, who took advantage of UAE Emirates failure to increase his advantage in the overall classification.
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Portuguese cyclist João Almeida lost time again in the fight for victory in the return to Spain, seeing Danish Jonas Vingegaard ‘steal’ four seconds in Sprint intermediate the 19th stage.
In an award-to-last stage of 161.9 kilometers, between Rueda and Guijelo, in which no changes were predicted in Genera, UAE Emirates failed and, ‘Sleeping’, saw Visma-Lease give four seconds of vingegaard bonuses, which recovered most of the 10 seconds earned by Almeida in the counter-rerarenal.
“I got a few seconds there. We were in good position, I went to try and won the sprint. It was improvised. We saw that we were in the front [Notes:do pelotão] And we thought, ‘why not?’ “Vingegaard said, who assumes that” four seconds is not much, “but continues to lead.
On the eve of the decisive stage of Saturday, which ends with a rise to Bola del Mundo, Vingegaard added 44 seconds of advance to Portuguese, with British Thomas Pidcock already out of the race at 2.43 minutes.
In addition to losing four seconds, Almeida still picked up another ‘scare’ at 35 kilometers from the goal, when, due to the side winds and his team completely uncoordinated, he was cut, with a small group in front of the race, in which he was Vingegaard.
Luck turned out to be the fact that Visma-Lease the bike, or another team, has been able to have more corridors in front and João Almeida, only with the help of Australian Jay Vine, managed to easily take this group.
Moreover, the journey ran as expected, with the sprinters teams controlling much of the race, ending by Belgian Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceunct) for getting the third victory of this edition of Vuelta, in 3: 50.35 hours.
On Saturday, the decisive 20th and penultimate stage, with 164.8 kilometers, between Robledo de keyal and Bola del Mundo, with the goal to be coincided with a special category, the fifth mountain count of the day.
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