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João Almeida believes he can take the red jersey today. “It’s not much, to be honest,” he said in a pre-race interview of his deficit of 44 seconds. “I think everything is open.”
The riders have left the unofficial start and will be racing soon.
This is set to be a significant day in the career of Jonas Vingegaard. The supremacy of Tadej Pogačar means he hasn’t actually won a Grand Tour since the 2023 Tour de France, since when he has made the podium three times. He will not want to extend that run to four podium finishes without a win by losing the red jersey today.
There is more than enough climbing today for Almeida to gain those 44 seconds. The five mountains today amount to a total of 4,226m elevation gain, including the feared Bola del Mundo, a horrible summit finish which could cause absolute carnage.
This is the penultimate stage of the race, and the last in the mountains – and the GC race remains on a knife edge. Just 44 seconds separate Jonas Vingegaard and João Almeida at the top of classification, and the latter will need to throw everything at gaining that time today.
Hello and welcome to stage 20 of the Vuelta a España!
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