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Tour of Spain: Roglic wins the Vuelta, Ezquerra makes marriage proposal to his girlfriend

2019-09-15T18:49:31.490Z


The Slovenian Primoz Roglic has become the overall winner of the Tour of Spain for the first time. Second was the Spanish world champion Alejandro Valverde. Another Spanish cyclist provided a surprise.



Slovenian professional cyclist Primoz Roglic from Team Jumbo-Visma is the overall winner of the 74th Tour of Spain. On the last leg of the Vuelta, the 29-year-old former ski jumper on the way to Madrid was no longer attacked, defending his red jersey. After just under 3300 kilometers, Roglic was 2:16 minutes ahead of the Spanish world champion Alejandro Valverde from Team Movistar. The overall podium was completed by Roglic compatriot Tadej Pogacar.

The 21st stage from Fuenlabrada to Madrid over 105.6 kilometers was won by Fabio Jakobsen from the Netherlands. The best German was John Degenkolb in twelfth place.

Meanwhile, the Spanish driver Jesús Ezquerra used the race for something completely different: The 28-year-old from the team Burgos BH made a proposal to his girlfriend while driving. On a video you can see him handing an engagement ring to his girlfriend sitting in a care-car:

She said yes!

Jesus Ezquerra with a great proposal on the final stage to Madrid! # LaVuelta19 pic.twitter.com/0zqp3dxiRw

- Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) 15 September 2019

The only German stage victory this year was provided by Niklas Arndt, who had won the eighth leg.

Source: spiegel

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