Vingegaard closes in on Vuelta title by winning penultimate stage after another anti-Israel protest
BOLA DEL MUNDO, Spain (AP) — Jonas Vingegaard is poised to win the Spanish Vuelta cycling race after increasing his lead on Saturday's decisive stage, a mountain trek that was briefly disrupted by another anti-Israel protest.The Vuelta will be Vingegaard's third Grand Tour title, adding to Dane's pair of Tour de France titles won in 2022 and 2023.“I’m very happy I could put the finishing touches on things today,” Vingegaard said. “It’s nice to be able to reward the hard work of my teammates. Not just today, but over the last three weeks they’ve been fantastic.”Vingegaard won Saturday's 165-kilometer (102-mile) mountain stage ending atop the beyond-category Bola del Mundo ascent in 3 hours, 56 minutes.The leader of Visma-Lease a Bike dropped top rival João Almeida and the remainder of the hardiest chasers on the final kilometers of the brutal uphill push with gradients of 20%.Almeida finished fourth, 22 seconds behind. That meant Vingegaard extended his advantage over Almeida to 1 minute, 16 seconds with only…
13 Sep 18:51 · iNFOnews.ca