A week to the day after Gianpaolo Caruso (Bahrain Victorious) claimed a long-distance solo victory in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España deep in southern Andalucia, another top climbing specialists, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rafal Majka (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates) made an even longer  suc🌱cessful lone attack in the mountain✨s of Avila.

While Caruso launched his lone m⛦ove to Velefique 68 kilometres from the line, Majka sheered away from co-breakaway artist Fabio Aru (Qhuebeka-NextHash) with 87 kilometres to go from the finish town of El Barraco.

A full two hours later, the 31-year-old came home alone, pointing his arms repeatedly skywards as he celebrated his first victory in four years. Curiously enough, his previous win was also a stage of the Vuelta at La Pandera, a summit finish near last wee𝓰k’s stage finish of 🍨Valdepeñas de Jaén, when Majka fended off a powerful, late counter-attack by Miguel Ángel López.

This time꧟ Majka’s gap was much bigger and his fourth Gra🍬nd Tour stage victory carried much more emotional significance. 

“Bac🎉k then i🌊t was a nice win, also from a break, but today was very important for me,” said Majka. “I wanted to win for my father, who died recently.”

Majka has recently completed the Tour de France, where he did sterling work for team leader Tadej Pogačar in the Pyrenees despite a bad crash late in the second week. At the Vuelta, with Pogačar racing elsewhere, Majka and the UAE team were trying for stage wins and to shine in their own right.

“I didn’t come to do the Vuelta GC, rather we have oppoꦓrtunities to go for breaks so I took today’s chance” Majka, third in the Vuelta in 2015, told reporters.

“I had very good legs and knew that I had to finish alone because I’m not fast on the finishes. Also I knew I had to drop Aru because I wanted ♍to go at my own pace, rather than have to work with somebody else.

“I was scared tဣhat [chaser Steven] Kruijswijk (Jumbo-Visma) might catch me, but I always kept going at my own speed, I felt pretty confident.” 

And with an advantage of over a minute at the 🃏top of both the second to last climb, the first-category Mijares, and again on the third-category San Juan de la Nava, Majka could take a memorably long-distance victory.

&ld༺quo;When I got to the final climb with that advantage, I knew that I could win,” Majka said afterwards, “and I actually eased back a little on the descent into the finish, because I knew I didn’t need to take too many risks. And it worked oܫut fine.

“Sometimes you have good legs and it doesn&rsqꦺuo;t work out but I tried today from the start to the end. I wasn🍌’t going to wait for anybody today. I wanted to win for my father, for my two kids and for my great team, UAE.”