That Jonas Vingegaard remained the overall leader of the Vuelta a España after stage 3’s blisteringly-fast uphill finish at Ceres is hardly news in itself, but that the Dane did so by taking third in the sprint just behind unexpected winner David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) and leading favourite Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) was certainly much more of a surprise.
The Visma-Lease a Bike leader has stayed in la roja by the bare minimum, with his third place on the stage and consequent time bonus, combined with better placings on stage 1 than Gaudu, enabling him to hold on despite being tied on time with the Frenchman.
Vingegaard has now moved into the overall lead of the points competition, too, but he denied that he was trying to follow Tadej Pogačar’s example of fighting for bonus seconds as well as for the overall.
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