Jonas Vingegaard looked casual while he slipped back into the red jersey at the top of the Larra-Belagua but it was a dramatic day at the Vuelta a España for UAE Team Emirates as Jay Vine, the mountains classification leader, won the 10th stage and his teammate Juan Ayuso accused the team’s management of acting “like a dictatorship”.
Vine took his second stage win, the fourth of the race for UAE, with a well-timed attack on the last climb to distance his final challenger left in the breakaway, Pablo Castrillo. The Australian had originally called off plans to go for a stage win as the peloton attacked the hilly route at pace – with average speeds regularly topping 49km/h – but as the race unfolded an opportunity arose for Vine to bridge over to the day’s breakaway group and he took it.
