Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) continued his storming start to the season, taking control of the Volta a Catalunya with a dominant solo victory atop the Coll de Pal on stage 5 on Friday.
This was only the first summit finish of the race after the removal of the previous day’s climb to Vallter 2000, and the persisting high winds even forced the organisers to chop 2.2km off the top of this one, but it still left 17km of the brutal mountain for Vingegaard to flex his muscles.
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Previously second-placed Tom Pidcock (Pinarello Q36.5) was dropped at the bottom of the final climb, having reportedly crashed on the descent, while João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) lost almost two minutes in the end. The damage was worse for Ineos Grenadiers, who predictably lost the leader’s jersey on Dorian Godon’s shoulders but also saw Oscar Onley finish 2:27 down, with Carlos Rodriguez dropped even early on the climb.
In the group with Evenepoel and rounding out the new top 10 on GC were: Ben O’Connor (Jayco-AlUla), Mattias…
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