Alberto Dainese (DSM-Firmenich) took out the stage win from a bunch sprint on stage 19 of the Vuelta a España after a crash in the final kilometres kept Australian points classification leader Kaden Groves out of the sprint.
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The crash appeared to be caused by an overlap of wheels with EF Education-EasyPost's lead-out rider and a Alpecin-Deceuninck rider, who came down first at high speed and brought down about 10 other riders including Australian Chris Hamilton . "One and a half kilometres to go, maybe just before, I don't really know what happened with the crash but I had to stop and jump off my bike, so was unable to sprint," said Groves.
It meant that Groves also missed taking any points in the sprint to the finish. He actually extended his lead in the green jersey after taking second at the intermediate sprint, but will have to wait for his jersey win to be confirmed on Stage 21.