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Vuelta a España: Contador wins penultimate stage and Froome guaranteed victory
10/09/2017
ALBERTO Contador's last-ever international cycling tournament saw the Spaniard go out with a bang yesterday (Saturday) as he won what is technically the final stage of the Vuelta a España.
Meanwhile, Britain's Chris Froome is guaranteed to win whatever happens in today's last leg.
The final thrust, ending in Madrid, is normally little more than a formality as the winners will have already been decided by then, meaning the last stage that could have made a difference was yesterday's in Asturias.
Team Trek-Segafredo's Contador, 34 (pictured), who has announced he will retire after the Vuelta, roared ahead – albeit with a pained expression on his face – up the Angliru mountain, a hike of over 13 kilometres with a gradient of 20%, to win stage 20.
He was comfortably in the lead by the last six kilometres, even though he had to grind to a halt on one occasion after crashing into one of a group of spectators who had invaded the track.
Contador will be fourth in this year's Vuelta, meaning he just misses the podium in Madrid, but he has already won it three times, as well as the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia twice each.
After completing the stage that Froome has once described as 'vicious' in three hours, 31 minutes and 33 seconds, Contador got a hero's welcome as he crossed the finishing line just 17 seconds before Team Sky's Dutch rider Wout Poels sailed in, neck and neck with his team-mate Froome, for joint second.
Froome, 32, only has to complete the stage, which effectively means staying on his bike, today in order to become only the third man in cycling history to win both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España in the same year, and the first-ever Brit to win the Vuelta.
He will be joined on the podium by second-placed Italian Vincenzo Nibali (team Bahrain-Mérida) and third-placed Russian Ilnur Zakarin (team Katusha-Alpecín) who came sixth and fourth respectively in yesterday's stage 20.
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ALBERTO Contador's last-ever international cycling tournament saw the Spaniard go out with a bang yesterday (Saturday) as he won what is technically the final stage of the Vuelta a España.
Meanwhile, Britain's Chris Froome is guaranteed to win whatever happens in today's last leg.
The final thrust, ending in Madrid, is normally little more than a formality as the winners will have already been decided by then, meaning the last stage that could have made a difference was yesterday's in Asturias.
Team Trek-Segafredo's Contador, 34 (pictured), who has announced he will retire after the Vuelta, roared ahead – albeit with a pained expression on his face – up the Angliru mountain, a hike of over 13 kilometres with a gradient of 20%, to win stage 20.
He was comfortably in the lead by the last six kilometres, even though he had to grind to a halt on one occasion after crashing into one of a group of spectators who had invaded the track.
Contador will be fourth in this year's Vuelta, meaning he just misses the podium in Madrid, but he has already won it three times, as well as the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia twice each.
After completing the stage that Froome has once described as 'vicious' in three hours, 31 minutes and 33 seconds, Contador got a hero's welcome as he crossed the finishing line just 17 seconds before Team Sky's Dutch rider Wout Poels sailed in, neck and neck with his team-mate Froome, for joint second.
Froome, 32, only has to complete the stage, which effectively means staying on his bike, today in order to become only the third man in cycling history to win both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España in the same year, and the first-ever Brit to win the Vuelta.
He will be joined on the podium by second-placed Italian Vincenzo Nibali (team Bahrain-Mérida) and third-placed Russian Ilnur Zakarin (team Katusha-Alpecín) who came sixth and fourth respectively in yesterday's stage 20.
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