David Gaudu outsprinting Mads Pedersen and Jonas Vingegaard to victory on stage 3 of the Vuelta a España was a weird enough sight on its own, but the diminutive Frenchman mixing it with the fast men on stage 4 in search of bonus seconds on the final bunch sprint was an even more of a rarity.
But when you consider that his first overall lead at a Grand Tour and the Vuelta's red jersey was on the line, it was a risk worth taking for Gaudu, whose valiant ride amid the shoulders and elbows of a bunch earned him enough of a positional gain after the first four stages to overtake Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike).
