• Team Sky rider pulls away from Esteban Chaves on steep finish • Froome: ‘I put everything into that last couple of hundred metres’Great Britain’s Chris Froome extended his lead in La Vuelta a España by winning stage nine ahead of his nearest rival Esteban Chaves at Cumbre del Sol. However, Team Sky’s Froome was able to accelerate again and pulled clear to win by four seconds and extend his lead over Chaves, of Orica-Scott, in the general classification to 36 seconds. “I put everything I had into that last couple of hundred metres,” Froome said after his first stage win of 2017. I’m really, really happy to get the victory. The team did a brilliant job on that final climb and set such a good tempo.

Source: The Guardian August 27, 2017 17:12 UTC