Belgian Wout van Aert sprinted to win stage seven of the Vuelta a Espana on Friday, his second victory of this year’s race, with Australia’s Ben O’Connor retaining the overall lead
Belgian sprints to second victory of this year’s raceVan Aert added to his win on stage three with another dominant performance to take the seventh stage. The Belgian rider sprinted to claim the stage victory in four hours, 15 minutes. Mathias Vacek was second, with Spain’s Pau Miquel Delgado third.
The pace set by Red Bull and Roglic on the climb brought a split in the race, however, with a leading bunch of 33 riders left to battle for the stage win. Australia’s Kaden Groves, winner of stage two, crashed as he attempted to make his way back to the leaders, which took one of Van Aert’s main rivals out of the final sprint.
“I expected it to be a way bigger group to go to the finish. I knew the climb on the circuit was hard but I didn’t expect that the race would explode like it did,” Van Aert said. “Sepp did such an amazing job, I don’t think people know what it’s like when you’re below 60kg and you do those kinds of pulls on the flat.”
Roglic, the pre-race favourite, only managed to take six seconds off O’Connor’s impressive lead, taking the bonus seconds when he was first at the top of the climb. “I can’t really do much against Primoz’s sprint for the bonuses, but you have to take a lot of bonuses to make up that amount of time,” Australia’s O’Connor said.
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