As Juan Ayuso celebrated a narrow but well-deserved victory at the Volta a Catalunya's first summit finish at La Molina, at least two of his key rivals were left reflecting on a high mountain stage which created more questions than it did real answers.
'That was una locura [crazy]," former Tour de France winner Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) said afterwards, succinctly pointing out that "we got to the finish and there was a huge group in a sprint in a stage with 5,000 metres of climbing".
