Vingegaard Retakes Lead In Vuelta A Espana

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Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark and Team Visma | Lease a Bike celebrates astatine podium arsenic Red Leader Jersey victor

Adwaidh Rajan

BBC Sport journalist

Jonas Vingegaard reclaimed nan reddish jersey astatine nan Vuelta a Espana arsenic his Visma-Lease a Bike outfit came 2nd successful nan squad clip proceedings connected shape five.

They vanished 8 seconds down UAE Team Emirates-XRG, who took nan shape triumph successful Figueres by covering nan 24.1km people successful 25 minutes and 26 seconds.

Giulio Ciccone's Lidl-Trek, who had group nan benchmark early successful nan day, vanished 9 seconds down nan winners successful 3rd place.

UAE's 74th triumph of nan play helped their trio of Juan Ayuso, Joao Almeida and Marc Soler each move 8 seconds down two-time Tour de France victor Vingegaard successful nan wide standings.

France's David Gaudu, who won nan 3rd stage and led nan wide standings aft 4 days of racing successful Italy and France, is now sixth, 16 seconds down Vingegaard, pinch Ciccone successful fifth.

British rider Tom Pidcock's Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team vanished eighth, 22 seconds slower than winners UAE, and he is now 13th successful nan GC standings, 30 seconds down Vingagaard.

Fifteen nationalist time-trial champions took portion successful nan 5th stage, pinch clip for nan teams group by nan 4th rider home.

The sixth shape of nan Vuelta connected Thursday will beryllium this year's first existent upland test, spanning 171km crossed nan Pyrenees from Olot successful Catalonia to Pal successful Andorra.

It will beryllium followed by different upland shape from Andorra la Vella to Cerler connected Friday.