2024 Vuelta a España Stage 10 Results & Recap
Stage 10 of the 2024 Vuelta a España is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Van Aert Takes Third Victory
Wout van Aert was active from the start, and he spent the entire day on the attack. After strengthening his lead in the points classification at the intermediate sprint, he charged ahead, with only Quentin Pacher able to latch on. In the sprint, Van Aert was by far the fastest of the two.
“It’s not too often that I can win when my family visits me on a race, so it makes it extra special and really nice," van Aert said. "It was really my aim to be in the breakaway but I had a hard time on the first climb. I almost gave up, but I gave it one more try just before the top. Still then, we had to fight for 50 kilometres with a little bit of a gap. To be honest, I think it worked in my favour because in the finale, the climbers in my group didn’t have fresh legs and that’s how I won. [Saying I can win any stage] is a bit exaggerated, I would say, but it’s nice to be in a race like this with a versatile profile. And when I end up in a situation like this, I always have a chance. It’s a very cool victory. I took KOM points because it was a big fight at the front, but my eyes are definitely on the green jersey and not at all on the mountain jersey.”
The GC remains unchanged, with Ben O'Connor leading La Vuelta.
“In the end, it was the perfect scenario," O'Connor said. "It was a really hard start, it took a long time for the break to go. A lot of guys in the top 10 were interested in the breakaway so I think we did a good job today to control the start. Other teams were trying to stay in position, so we did the descent full gas. The pace was pretty hard onto the second climb, and then it pretty much stopped. It was about staying in position. I think tomorrow, the finale, will be a little more decisive. The final climb is a hard one so it will be interesting to see.”
Wout van Aert, Mathis Le Berre and Harold Tejada attacked in the run-up to the first climb, Alto de Fonfría. The three were caught on the early slopes.
The attacks kept flying until Marc Soler, Wout van Aert and William Junior Lecerf opened up a gap in the last 2 kilometres of the Fonfría. Back in the valley, Juri Hollmann and Quentin Pacher bridged across to them. Behind them, the race remained heated for tens of kilometres.
The chase halted around the midway marker, and then the gap widened to over six minutes.
Van Aert took the intermediate sprint and he pushed on, while Pacher rejoined him before the last climb of the day.
At the Alto de Mougas summit, Van Aert drew level on points with KOM leader Adam Yates. Pacher was on his wheel, while Lecerf and Soler reached the top a minute later.
Van Aert and Pacher worked well together to distance the chasers before the Belgian powered to a commanding victory in Baiona.\nThe peloton finished together, so the GC remained unchanged, with Ben O’Connor leading almost four minutes ahead of Primoz Roglic.
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