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☿ Cycling — Sun, 30 Aug 2026

Mas winning a summit finish at the Vuelta is not a surprise — but winning it with Roglic twelve seconds back rather than twelve seconds ahead is the kind of result that reorders everything you thought you knew about this race. Onley at the same time as Mas tells you that INEOS found something today, or that Mas found slightly less than he needed to drop a rider who should not have been there at the end. Roglic losing time on a mountain stage is the detail that matters most — not because twelve seconds is a gap that cannot be closed, but because a man who has won this race before and who controls suffering the way Roglic does does not lose twelve seconds without a reason that will demand explanation in the coming days. Watch the Angliru or whatever wall comes next, because a wounded Roglic is historically more dangerous than a comfortable one — but a Mas who has just proven he can drop him is a different kind of threat than this race has seen in some time.

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🏁 VUELTA A ESPAÑA — Stage 9
🥇 MAS Enric (MOV) (5:10:40)
🥈 ONLEY Oscar (IGD)
🥉 ROGLIČ Primož (RBH) (+0:12)

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