Second stage win for Vine as Vingegaard regains lead

As Jonas Vingegaard regained the overall lead at the Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday, Australian Jay Vine won the second stage of the competition.

After the final climb, Pablo Castrillo, the breakaway’s leader, was drawn in by Vine, who had already attacked the remaining members of Movistar.

Spaniard Castrillo, a 29-year-old UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider, won by 35 seconds at the Larra-Belagua ski resort, close to Spain’s border with France, to claim his fourth Vuelta stage victory of his career.

Torstein Traeen, who was dropped on the final climb, was given the leader’s red jersey by Team Visma-Lease a Bike’s Vingegaard, who was just over a minute behind the winner.

Vine said, “Winning is so, so hard, and it’s such an incredible feeling when it happens.”

“I don’t think I’ll ever get used to winning,” he said. “It’s just unbelievably difficult.”

Vine, who won the king of the mountains award last year, is once more in the lead in the polka dot jersey race after winning the first mountain stage on Thursday this year.

Tom Pidcock, who finished fifth on Tuesday, is in fourth place overall while Joao Almeida of the UAE Team Emirates-XRG is in third place overall.

1. Emirates-XRG (Aus/UAE Team) Jay Vine 3hrs 56 minutes 24 secs

2. Castrilia (Spa/Movistar) + 35 seconds of Paradise

3. Javier Romo (Spa/Movistar) + 1 minute 4 seconds

4. Irl/EF Education-Easy Post intern, Archie Ryan + 1 minute, 5 seconds

5. Same time Tom Pidcock (GB/Q 36.5 Pro Cycling Team)

6. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek/Ita)

7. Jai Hindley (Aus/Rod Bull-Bora Hansgrohe)

8. Team Visma-Lease a Bike Matteo Jorgenson (USA)

9. Junior Lecerf (Quick-Step) by Bel/Soudal

1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) 37 hrs 33 mins 52 secs

2. Thorstein Traeen (Nor/Bahrain Victorious) + 26secs

3. 38secs for Joao Almeida (Por/UAE Team Emirates-XRG)

4. Tom Pidcock (GB/Pro Cycling Team) + 58secs

5. Felix Gall (Aut/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) + 2 minutes, 3 secs

6. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek/Ita)+2mins 5secs

7. Matteo Jorgenson (USA/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) + 2 minutes, 12 seconds

8. Jai Hindley (Aus/Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe) + 2 minutes 16 seconds

9. Giulio Pellizzari (Ita/Red Bull-BORA hansgrohe) at the same time