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Eventually, a strong group of seven forced a gap. Nil Gimeno, Iuri Leitao, Carlos Garc\u00eda Pierna, Nicol\u00e1s Alustiza, Miguel Heidemann, Matthew Walls and Eduardo P\u00e9rez-Landaluce built an advantage of over three minutes, with Movistar Team taking responsibility in the peloton behind.<\/p>\n
Race explodes on the climbs as UAE turn the screw<\/p>\n
The Alto de la Bobia reshaped the race, reducing the breakaway to a trio of Gimeno, Garc\u00eda Pierna and Alustiza. With 39 kilometres remaining, Garc\u00eda Pierna attacked, distancing his companions and going solo at the front. His move was then disrupted by a crash on the descent of the Alto de Orouso, though he was able to remount and continue, keeping his chances alive.<\/p>\n
Behind, the race was driven by a sustained offensive from UAE Team Emirates-XRG. The pace increased sharply as the team looked to isolate race leader Nairo Quintana, with repeated attacks stretching the group and forcing reactions from the Movistar rider. Quintana responded to each acceleration himself, maintaining control, while Movistar also used the terrain to keep the race under pressure.<\/p>\n
Cadena takes his chance as Baroncini leads the chase<\/p>\n
The decisive move came with 23 kilometres remaining, when Edgar Cadena bridged across to Garc\u00eda Pierna before immediately pressing on alone. With the favourites locked in a tactical battle behind, the gap held longer than expected. Baroncini emerged as the strongest rider in the chase, committing fully in the closing kilometres and distancing the rest of the group.<\/p>\n
Despite closing the gap significantly, he was unable to reach Cadena, who crossed the line solo to take the stage victory. Baroncini followed 26 seconds later to secure second place, with Jermaine Zemke completing the podium.<\/p>\n
For Baroncini, the result represents a significant milestone, underlining his return to competitive racing at the highest level after months of recovery, and signalling his growing influence within UAE Team Emirates-XRG as the season continues.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eventually, a strong group of seven forced a gap. Nil Gimeno, Iuri Leitao, Carlos Garc\u00eda Pierna, Nicol\u00e1s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,129941,101,12183,56,54,55,135141],"class_list":["post-550877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-filippo-baroncini","tag-sports","tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vuelta-a-asturias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}