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Alasdair Fotheringham

Kaden Groves clinches third Vuelta a España stage win after inheriting points lead from Wout van Aert

Team Alpecin's Kaden Groves celebrates crossing first the finish line of the stage 17 of the Vuelta a Espana, a 141,5 km race between Arnuero and Santander, on September 4, 2024. (Photo by Ander Gillenea / AFP).

Just 24 hours after he inherited the Vuelta a España points classification lead when Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) crashed out, Australian sprinter Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) boosted his advantage in that classification to the maximum by netting his third stage win of the 2024 race.

For Groves and the other fast men in the 2024 Vuelta a España, there were no more sprint stages on offer after Wednesday’s hilly, waterlogged run to Santander. There was a distinct air of now-or-never as the rain teemed down in the northern region of Cantabria and a four-man break did their utmost to outwit the peloton.

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