Pidcock ready for podium as Vingegaard all but guarantees Vuelta triumph with stage win
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Pidcock: ‘It’s the biggest performance of my career’
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Leader takes 1:16 advantage into Sunday’s final stage
Tom Pidcock stands to finish on the podium of the Vuelta a España on Sunday after surviving the final mountain test as Jonas Vingegaard rode away to take a stage 20 win that all but seals his overall victory.
Pidcock, defending an advantage of 39sec over Jai Hindley, wrestled his bike up gradients in excess of 20% to the summit of the Bola del Mundo – the last 3km of which were ridden on broken concrete in a brutal test of stamina at the end of three weeks.