Roglic wins stage four on summit finishThree-times champion takes overall lead
The three-times Vuelta a España champion Primoz Roglic won the first mountain stage of this year’s race on Tuesday after a ferocious climb to Pico Villuercas. On a baking hot 170km fourth-stage, with the race crossing from Portugal into Spain for the first time, Roglic showed his strength to burst past Lennert Van Eetvelt and snatch the win.
Van Eetvelt paid the price for celebrating what would have been a maiden Grand Tour stage win too early, raising his arm in triumph then banging his handlebars in frustration as Roglic sneaked past on the line.
