Vingegaard’s stage 16 win sees him reduce overall gap between his Jumbo-Visma team-mate to just 29 seconds
However, Vingegaard’s 2′22 deficit dropped to 1′44 when he won stage 13 and his solo raid with 4km remaining on Tuesday’s stage saw him take the day’s victory, move to second overall and further reduce the gap to just 29 seconds.Kuss’s position atop the general classification now looks more precarious, not least with Wednesday’s stage to the top of the wall-like Angliru climb to come, as well as another summit finish on Thursday plus an arduous final mountain leg on Saturday.
However, if he is feeling pressure of a dream Vuelta win potentially slipping away, he wasn’t showing it. “The plan changed a little bit,” he said. “Just before the final part of the climb, Jonas [Vingegaard] asked on the radio if he could attack and it was a really good moment to go. Everybody was looking at each other behind and he also rode a super-fast climb, so he was unstoppable.
“It’s another super day for the team. I felt pretty good. I knew this kind of finish would be hard for me, it’s really explosive. I’m happy with how I rode, hanging on there. Tomorrow is a totally different story. The legs are still good and I’m looking forward to it.” For his part, Vingegaard said he was motivated by a serious car crash involving his team-mate and friend Nathan van Hooydonck. “I’m just happy to win today. We had some terrible news this morning and I wanted to win for my best friend today,” he said.“Luckily now there is good news. It’s a big relief for me, for the team, and I hope he will recover soon. I don’t know if I’ll take the overall lead tomorrow. I just want to enjoy the moment.
“Tomorrow I will try to do the stage as well as I can. It [the Angliru] is a climb that I like a lot, and I hope to still be in the leader’s jersey.”
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