Primoz Roglic gains time on Remco Evenepoel’s lead as red jersey cracks and Richard Carapaz wins dramatic stage

Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) stormed to his second stage win at this year’s La Vuelta as Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) gained 52 seconds on Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) who cracked for the first time in this year’s race.

Roglic attacked with 4km to go on the Sierra de la Pandera and simply rode away from Evenepoel with every pedal stroke but was unable to catch Carapaz who held on to win by eight seconds.

Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana Qazaqstan) was the only other general classification contender to live with Roglic’s pace as Enric Mas (Movistar) and Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) also lost time.

Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), who was fifth in the overall standings coming into the day, suffered a puncture with 3km to go when Roglic had just made his attack and was the other big lose of the stage.

Roglic is now 1’49” behind Evenepoel going into Sunday’s stage, which is also a summit finish, with Mas 2’43 behind the red jersey, Rodriguez 3’46” adrift and Ayuso at 4’53”.

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