Overall race leader Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) has hammered home his authority in the 2026 Volta a Catalunya, soaring away to the Santuari de Queralt finish to claim his second summit finish victory in as many days.
Isolated from his teammates in a select group of five after an arduous day of climbing in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Vingegaard decided the best form of defence was an attack, launching away with 2.5 kilometres to go.
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How it unfolded
While Michel Hessman (Movistar) was unlucky enough to crash in the neutralised section and was rushed away in an ambulance, numerous breakaway attempts on the long, very irregular slopes of the Cat.3 Col de la Battallola that followed culminated in a 15-group eventually extracting itself from the…
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