Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic sealed a record-equalling fourth Vuelta a España title on Sunday after retaining his total lead within the closing stage of the race, a 24.6km particular person time-trial in Madrid which was gained by Stefan Kung.
Pink Bull-BORA-hansgrohe’s Roglic reclaimed the purple jersey from the Australian rider Ben O’Connor with a devastating solo assault on stage 19 on Friday and the Slovenian by no means appeared again as he equalled the Spaniard Roberto Heras’s report of 4 Vuelta wins.
When Roglic crossed the road, he pointed a finger to the sky and smiled as he completed with an total lead of 2min 36sec over O’Connor whereas the Spaniard Enric Mas of Movistar was third.
Victory was all of the extra particular for Roglic who was pressured to desert the Tour de France forward of stage 13 after the yellow jersey contender crashed twice in consecutive phases.
Roglic, who gained three consecutive Vuelta titles from 2019, got here into this 12 months’s race because the clear favorite, with the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and the Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel opting to not experience in Spain.
Nevertheless, he was stunned by O’Connor when the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale rider took the purple jersey from him on stage six and opened up a spot of practically 5 minutes. However Roglic, nicknamed the “Slovenian Dream Crusher”, slowly clawed his means again and put one hand on the title in stage 19 on the summit end of Alto de Moncalvillo.
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Roglic was the final rider out for the ultimate stage and the Tokyo Olympics time-trial gold medallist completed with a time of 26min 59sec, adequate for second after the Swiss bike owner Kung went 31sec sooner.
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