Vuelta a España leader Jonas Vingegaard was left searching for positives after a failure to attack even once on the Angliru stage was followed by surprise defeat by arch-rival João Almeida at the summit.
Vingegaard remains on top of the overall classification in the Vuelta and after staying glued to Almeida’s back wheel all the way up the climb, on GC he has distanced all of his rivals bar one.
Second at the summit, just as he was in 2023 behind then-teammate Primoz Roglič, Vingegaard said that he would have liked to have won after all the work his squad did on the long approach to the three final climbs of the day – the Mozqueta, Cordal and above all the Angliru.
“But I could also follow João, and a lot of the other guys are now at a bigger distance, so that makes it easier for the coming days. João was super-strong, though, I did what I could but he deserved to win, so I’m a bit disappointed.”
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