MONASTERIO DE TENTUDÍA, Spain — Rigoberto Uran won stage 17 of the Vuelta a
Espana on Wednesday after a swashbuckling high-altitude struggle to a
mountaintop monastery in Extremadura as defending champion
Primoz Roglic
withdrew injured.
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Aiming for a
fourth straight Vuelta Roglic was a non-starter due to injuries from a fall
Tuesday when he was trying to gain time on race leader Remco Evenepoel, who
Wednesday lost 5sec to his closest rival Movistar’s Enric Mas.
The Belgian leads
by 2min 01sec with 19-year-old Juan Ayuso of UAE in third.
Colombia’s Uran
was completing a collection of stage wins in all three of cycling’s Grand
Tours.
The 35-year-old, a
previous runner-up on both the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia was amongst
a long-range escape who began an internecine struggle up the final slope with
the lead changing hands several times.
The 22-year-old
Belgian Evenepoel enjoyed a lead of almost three minutes at one point earlier
in the race, but suffered the loss of crucial teammate Julian Alaphilippe to
injury.
Stage 18 and 20 feature
multiple mountains when Mas will hope to attack Evenepoel.
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