Juan Ayuso fended off Primož Roglič by the barest minimum possible to claim both stage win and lead in the Volta a Catalunya on Wednesday, but given the narrowness of his success, the UAE Team Emirates-XRG racer was logically very cautious about his chances of overall victory in Sunday in Barcelona.
After 218 kilometres and more than 5,000 metres of vertical climbing, the Volta's opening high mountain stage at La Molina was decided by just a few millimetres difference in a two-up duel between the main pre-race favourites.
