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Valdepenas de Jaen, Aug 25 (AFP): Defending Vuelta champion Primoz Roglic made a statement of intent Wednesday when he hunted down Magnus Cort Neilsen’s desperate long-range escape for a stage 11 win that went down to the wire.<\/p>\n
Having fallen on Tuesday, Jumbo-Visma’s Roglic, instead of struggling, gained a few seconds on key rivals, Movistar pair Enric Mas and Miguel Angel Lopez.<\/p>\n
They made up the podium while Odd Christian Eiking held on to the overall lead, just clinging on over the last climb.<\/p>\n
“It feels like you can imagine, it feels really, really nice,” said Eiking, who is 58sec ahead of Guillaume Martin and 1min 56sec ahead of Roglic in the overall rankings.<\/p>\n
This was also the Slovenian Roglic’s second stage win on the 2021 Vuelta after the Olympic champion took the opening day time-trial by storm.<\/p>\n
Cort Neilsen had already won stage six and looked set for a victory here too after crossing the highest peak of the day 45sec ahead, but the EF Nippo man was caught an agonising 200m from the packed village centre finish line.<\/p>\n
Thanks to an earlier mountain stage win, Damiano Caruso of Bahrain Victorious is in the leading climber in the polka dot jersey after crossing the only summit in second.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s run from Jaen to Cordoba is a flat stage for the sprinters with Fabio Jakobsen in the green jersey. His closest rival Alpecin’s Jasper Philipsen pulled out Wednesday complaining of a fever.<\/p>\n
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