UAE Team Emirates take cautious stance on Adam Yates’ boosted Vuelta a España GC prospects

Two days after Adam Yates unleashed his inner Tadej Pogačar to go for a 60-kilometre solo breakaway to victory in Sierra Nevada, the next question is where the Briton can go from here in the battle for the overall win in the Vuelta a España in Madrid on September 8.

While the UAE Team Emirates racer said on Sunday that his main goal was the stage 9 win in Granada, his long-distance move also netted him a 3:45 time gap on the GC favourites. The Briton’s bad crash on stage 6 and tough day at Villuercas in the heat had all but left him on the sidelines of the overall. But turning that round with an amazing display of climbing power on Sunday in Sierra Nevada put Yates back in the GC game with a vengeance.