Australian Kaden Groves has raced to his maiden Grand Tour stage win at the Vuelta a Espana on a day when world champ Julian Alaphilippe suffered a bad injury.
It marked a brilliant end to what had begun as a calamitous day for BikeExchange-Jayco after their team leader, Briton Simon Yates, had to withdraw after testing positive for COVID-19 while lying fifth overall in the general classification.
"This morning with the news of Simon going positive for COVID-19, all the boys were disappointed. It's the best way to bounce back after such bad news. "I was fresher than the other guys who had to do efforts from behind to move up. Thankfully, I was in the right position and got the gap to step out and do my sprint."
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