Every cloud has a silver lining, the saying goes, and at the rain-soaked opening stage of the Volta a Catalunya, Visma-Lease a Bike could hardly have found a better way to bounce back from injured Jonas Vingegaard's unavoidable absence as his substitute teammate, 19-year-old Matthew Brennan, clinched his first WorldTour victory in spectacular last-ditch style.
"It's a shame Jonas is not here and that he crashed and that he's out of the race but he needs to recover and it's a good step for him to do that towards his next goals," Brennan said. "For me, it's a privilege to be racing on his behalf."
