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Vuelta 2015 logoVuelta Stage 7: Bert-Jan Linderman wins as Chris Froome gets dropped
Bert-Jan Linderman of LottoNL-Jumbo has won Stage 7 of the 2015 Vuelta at La Alpujarra on an afternoon when Tour de France champion Chris Froome of Team Sky lost time to his rivals.
Linderman, aged 26, was one of five riders who got away early on in the 191.1km stage from Lindar as he took the biggest win of his career.
He got away from his fellow escapees on the day's final climb, finishing 29 seconds ahead of Lampre-Merida's Ilia Koshevoy.
In the closing 2 kilometres, Astana's Fabio Aru - who unlike most of the fancied contenders for the overall did not ride the Tour de France - atacked from the group containing the main challengers for the General Classification, and finished third.
While the Sardinian's move only gained him a handful of seconds over most of his main rivals, it did put two-time Vuelta runner-up Froome in trouble and the Team Sky rider lost more than half a minute, dropping to 12th overall,
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Agreed. For a big lad he can certainly climb and amazing to see the breakaway surviving.
It's nice to see lotto-jumbo get a stage, after all these opportunities are the difference between sinking and swimming for a smaller team.
Is Sky's master plan being revealed. Let's wait until after the ITT stage, then we'll know what they're up to!