With this time-trial, Almeida has also become
UAE Team Emirates' second best positioned rider in the race. Marc Soler remains in second place as he continues to benefit from the breakaway on stage 6, however Almeida is now ahead of Juan Ayuso. The trio still have great opportunities to do damage in the race, despite the current form of Remco Evenepoel, and the equally impressive depth of Jumbo-Visma.
"Tomorrow (today, ed.) we will face another hard day, not super tough but it will be necessary to be up there and be vigilant," he says of today's summit finish at Laguna Negra de Vinuesa. "We’ll focus the attention on the next stages until to the summit arrival on the Tourmalet, it will be important to save energy until that point”.
