Another victory for UAE - Jay Vine takes win in Belagua as Jonas Vingegaard takes over red jersey
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Jay Vine has won stage 10 of the Vuelta a Espana, his second of the race, reinforcing his lead in the KOM classification. The UAE Team Emirates - XRG rider took the victory in a day where his team and teammate Juan Ayuso took over headlines over their split up.
This was a very fast day, finishing ahead of schedule after half of the stage saw a fierce fight to form a breakaway, on the flat roads heading into the Pyrenees where the riders had a sole big climb to tackle. Remco Evenepoel had been the last rider to win in Larra Belagua, and this time around it was again a breakaway succeeding.
A group of around 30 riders went up the road, albeit late in the day, including William Lecerf Junior who had a small chance of taking over the race lead, two UAE riders including Jay Vine, and many more.
With so many riders present and a lot of rolling roads before the final ascent, there were plenty attacks and a selection was made before the riders reached the final climb. In fact only around 10 riders entered the final climb within a shot of the win, with Alec Segaert entering it alone in front, and a small group chasing.
Javier Romo was the first to move in the start of the ascent, but soon enough with Segaert caught, Jay Vine would go on to make his move, linking up with Pablo Castrillo and then dropping the Spaniard with 5 kilometers to go. Another victory with ease for the Australian, with Castrillo and Romo finishing second and third for Movistar.
In the peloton Juan Ayuso, who put out some quite controversial statements against the UAE management at the start of the day, led out the start of the climb together with Mikkel Bjerg to prepare an attack from João Almeida. The Portuguese made two moves but was unable to drop Jonas Vingegaard and a few other riders.
Matteo Jorgenson kept control of the group throughout most of the climb, with the main GC riders arriving at the end of the climb together. However Vingegaard is the new race leader following the time gain on Torstein Traeen.
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