Vuelta a España leader Jonas Vingegaard has said that rather than risk his lead with a dramatic last mountain performance in Saturday’s showdown summit finish at Bola del Mundo, his top priority is to make it to Madrid unscathed and with the red jersey safely on his shoulders.
On stage 19’s largely uneventful sprint stage to Guijuelo, even at this late point in the Vuelta game, Vingegaard showed his race sharpness remained more than intact when he snatched a four-second time bonus at an intermediate sprint in Salamanca.
But that unexpected time gain only served to managed to amplify his perilously narrow GC advantage to 44 seconds on runner-up João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), and talking afterwards Vingegaard made it clear the margins are simply too tight to be looking to finish off the Vuelta with a mountaintop flourish.
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