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Primoz Roglic became the Slovenian by finishing the processional point of Sunday to Madrid, if he had been crowned Vuelta a Espana champion to acquire a Grand Tour. Having done the hard work within the previous few months, Roglic successfully defended his large head over second-placed Alejandro Valverde at the 21st stage of the race, also a 106.6km ride from Fuenlabada into the centre of Madrid. While world champion Valverde finished 19th in the period, 17 minutes before Roglic, who stopped the race 2 minutes 16 seconds ahead of the Spaniard total dutchman Fabio Jakobsen maintained the stage success. The compatriot Tadej Pogacar of roglic took the position 38 minutes ago, rounding off a stunning race to its 20-year-old, who made three stage wins. "Winning this race is a fantastic feeling and to maintain here with another Slovenian makes it much better, it's great news for biking in our country," Roglic stated from the podium outside the Cibeles Palace in Madrid. "I haven't had the time to consider all of this, but all I know is that the group rode together to make history" Roglic was among the favorites and showed remarkable consistency during the race, despite a rocky start he saw him and his Jumbo-Visma team-mates involved at a mass crash to the introductory point. 40 seconds were lost by the Slovenian as a result of that crash to pioneer Miguel Angel Lopez but came flying right back with a success on the individual time trial to contention on stage 10 to take the jersey. His timing trial exploits gave him a commanding lead of 3 minutes the Slovenian looked like surrendering his benefit, and although Valverde and Quintana traded places since Roglic challenger. He did suffer a scare when he jumped on stage 19 and Valverde's Movistar team attacked into the outrage of many at the peloton as biking etiquette dictates that no attacks are allowed if a race boss crashes or has a mechanical matter. Valverde caved into the protests and Roglic had been allowed to catch up with all the peloton, and he practically sealed the victory by surviving Saturday mountain point into Plataforma de Gredos. 1 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma 83hrs 7mins 31secs Two Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team in 2mins 16secs 3 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates at 2mins 38secs 4 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team in 3mins 29secs 5 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Guru Team in 4mins 31secs 6 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe at 7mins 16secs 7 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team Sunweb at 9mins 47secs 8 Carl Fredrik Hagen (Nor) Lotto Soudal at 12mins 54secs 9 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team in 22mins 10secs 10 Mikel Nieve (Spa) Mitchelton-Scott at 22mins 17secs Selected others 11 James Knox (Gbr) Deceuninck-QuickStep at 22mins 52secs 20 Tao Geoghegan Hart (Gbr) Team Ineos in 1hrs 4mins 4secs 70 Owain Doull (Gbr) Team Ineos in 3hrs 7mins 55secs 106 Ian Stannard (Gbr) Team Ineos in 4hrs 5mins 22secs 134 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe in 4hrs 41mins 27secs 1 Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) Deceuninck-QuickStep 2hrs 48mins 20secs 2 Sam Bennett (Irl) Bora-Hansgrohe 3 Szymon Sajnok (Pol) CCC Team 4 Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spa) Caja Rural-Seguros RGA 5 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Information 6 Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 7 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal 8 Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale ]9 Marc Sarreau (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 10 Dion Smith (NZl) Mitchelton-Scott Selected others 44 James Knox (Gbr) Deceuninck-QuickStep in 14secs 51 Ian Stannard (Gbr) Team Ineos at same time 101 Tao Geoghegan Hart (Gbr) Team Ineos at 38secs 124 Owain Doull (Gbr) Team Ineos exactly the same time Read more here: http://classicsounds.pl/?p=38445