One of the most remarkable riders of our time, Slovakia’s Peter Sagan of Russian team Tinkoff-Saxo, has won stage 3 of the Vuelta.
Despite fierce competition, he won a beautiful sprint ahead of Nacer Bouhanni and John Degenkolb. Peter hadn’t won a Grand Tour stage for two years. I’ve lost count of how many times he finished second this year, though he still took the Tour de France green jersey. When his team took second place on the Vuelta’s first stage, he joked that the story goes on — and yesterday evening that story finally came to an end!
As expected, there were no changes in the general classification. The young Colombian Johan Esteban Chaves will join the peloton in the red jersey again today.
Translated from Georgian with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic), reviewed by the Velorbola editors.
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April 15, 2019
