Primoz Roglic has a 2:38 lead in GC heading into the final stage, with a third straight red jersey now looking a formality. But he will be left to wonder what might have been after hesitancy allowed Clement Champoussin to stage a massive upset on a race dubbed a ‘mini Liege-Bastonge-Liege’.
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen will start his home Grand Prix from pole position after holding off Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton at Zandvoort on the Dutch coast. Hamilton’s teammate Valtteri Bottas will start from third with AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly a fine fourth.
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Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen will miss this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix following a positive test for Covid 19. The Finn will be replaced by the team’s reserve driver Robert Kubica who las raced in Formula 1 in 2019. It is unclear if Raikkonen will also miss next week’s Italian Grand Prix.
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Magnus Cort powered to a third win thanks to some selfless support from his EF Education-Nippo teammate Lawson Craddock in the breakaway on a day of high drama on La Vuelta. Cort and Craddock were part of an initial 24-man move which was whittled down to seven riders over the course of a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase from the peloton during a rolling Stage 19 in Galicia.
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Colombia’s Miguel Angel Lopez emerged through the mist to take a splendid victory in Stage 18 on the Vuelta’s first ever ascent of the fearsome Altu d’El Gamoniteiru. Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic soared to second place to strengthen his grip on the red jersey as Movistar teammates Enric Mas and Lopez consolidated their positions on the podium.
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