The latest summit finish round of the fight for red in the Vuelta a España ended in a stalemate on Wednesday as neither João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) nor Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) proved able to make a decisive move on the Alto de el Morredero.
"Jonas wasn't looking super, but neither was I," was how Almeida, his face visibly fatigued from the effort of tackling the punishing slopes of the Morredero, summed up the performances of the top two performers in the Vuelta and on a day when he maintained his losses on Vingegaard to just a couple of seconds in an uphill sprint of five.
