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Vuelta stage win for Groves gives BikeExchange morale boost after Yates DNS

Vuelta stage win for Groves gives BikeExchange morale boost after Yates DNS


Hours after their GC leader Simon Yates had to abandon the Vuelta a España due to a positive for COVID-19, BikeExchange-Jayco regained their maximum race momentum possible in difficult circumstances as their sprinter Kaden Groves claimed his first-ever WorldTour stage win.

Earlier in the day, lead sports director at the Vuelta, Gene Bates, bluntly described Yates’ exit as “devastating” and recognised that it represented “a blow” in the team’s ongoing UCI points battle, given Yates’ prospects of a good GC finish in Madrid remained intact 10 days into the race.

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