"Job well done" says Simon Yates after securing overall victory at AlUla Tour with final stage triumph

Simon Yates secured overall victory at the AlUla Tour on stage 5 in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. Prevailing in a 4-man sprint to the line, the Team Jayco AlUla leader added the stage and GC win to his palmares.

"I've been a bit nervous because I wasn't sure," Yates admits after being told he'd done enough to secure a double reason for celebration. "I knew Finn Fisher-Black was close so I wasn't sure. Somebody was coming really quickly on my left hand side in the sprint and I just wasn't sure."

Coming into the final kilometre alongside the aforementioned Fisher-Black and his UAE Team Emirates teammate, Rafal Majka, plus Soudal - Quick-Step prodigy, William Junior Lecerf, whoever finished first of Yates, Fisher-Black and Lecerf were guaranteed to take not only the stage win but the general classification also.

"Job well done," Yates smiles. "It's a very important race for us and like I've been saying all week, we come here for AlUla, now a big partner of ours so it's fantastic to pull the win off."

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