2024 Vuelta a España Stage 21 Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of Stage 21 of the 2024 Vuelta a España! Our live time-trial times and commentary are below, followed by a preview of the technical aspects of the route.
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The final stage of the Vuelta a España is an ITT in front of roaring city crowds. Not the tried-and-tested finishing circuit in Madrid, but a chronorace of 22 kilometres in the centre of Spain.
La Vuelta returns to Madrid for its final stage. But not the usual format, which usually boils down to a regular bunch sprint, although Nico Denz, Lennard Kämna, Rui Costa, Remco Evenepoel, Filippo Ganna and Kaden Groves had other plans last year. The six held the charging peloton at bay until they were finally caught with only 600 meters left. But, what the heck, no, Remco Evenepoel kicked again. Groves jumped to his wheel and opened the sprint early. He held off Ganna with a half bike length and took his third stage win on La Vuelta, plus he sealed the points competition triumph.
It was a spectacular finale to a race that had been dominated by Jumbo-Visma (now Visma Rent a Bike) for three weeks. The Dutch squad did a clean sweep and occupied the podium with three riders: Sepp Kuss, Jonas Vingegaard, and Primoz Roglic.
Let’s hope the GC riders will give the same kind of show in Madrid as the six attackers did last year. A Vuelta with a battle for red until the very end, the organisers must be dreaming of it. And so are we.
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