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\nPIORNAL, SPAIN: Mads Pedersen surged away from his sprint rivals on Friday to take the 19th stage, his third victory in the last seven Vuelta a Espana stages, while race leader Remco Evenepoel finished comfortably in the pack.<\/p>\n
\nPedersen, a Dane who rides for Trek, powered away from Fred Wright and Belgian Gianni Vermeersch, to take the 138.3km stage that began and ended in Talavera de la Reina in central Spain.<\/p>\n
\nWith two stages to race, Belgian Evenepoel of Quick-Step remained two minutes and seven seconds ahead of Spaniard Enric Mas and 5min 14sec clear of third-placed Juan Ayuso.<\/p>\n
\nThe stage ended in a sprint after the pack reeled in a powerful breakaway.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt was very hard to control the peloton, the team did an impressive job,\u201d said Pedersen. \u201cI have to say thank you to the guys because without them I had no chance to win today.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nEvenepoel said he had done a deal with the winner to help ensure the pack finished together.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThis was the perfect race,\u201d said Evenepoel. \u201cI promised Mads to control the breakaway with him, so we did our job.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nOn Tuesday, when his closest rival Primoz Roglic suffered a race-ending crash, Evenepoel also had a scare when he punctured.<\/p>\n
\nBut the Belgian was given the same time as the main bunch because he was less than 3km from the finish when he stopped.<\/p>\n
\nHe said those events were on his mind on Friday and he was just aiming to make it to the last 3km \u201cin case I would get a flat tire or a bike problem. It\u2019s just to stay safe, because tomorrow is the last day and the biggest fear today was to have a crash or to be unlucky. So that\u2019s why we were trying to stay in front.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThen, the last 1.3km was a straight line, so then I could slow a bit down and just follow the wheels.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSaturday\u2019s 20th and penultimate stage is a 181km run from Moralzarzal to Puerto de Navacerrada through the Guadarrama range north of Madrid. It includes five climbs which will give Evenepoel\u2019s rivals one last chance to attack.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI think tomorrow will be a very crazy day,\u201d said mountains classification leader Richard Carapaz of Ineos.<\/p>\n
\nSunday\u2019s final stage is a short, flat ride into Madrid.<\/p>\n
\nMeanwhile Roglic, the three-time defending Vuelta champion, on Friday blamed Wright for his crash.<\/p>\n
\nBarely 100m from the line on Tuesday, Roglic, sprinting for victory and bonus points, made contact with Wright, lost control at high speed, smashed onto the tarmac and suffered injuries that forced him to abandon.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThis was not okay,\u201d Roglic said in an interview published on the web site of his Jumbo-Visma team.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe way this crash happened is unacceptable,\u201d Roglic said.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe crash was not caused by a bad road or a lack of safety but by a rider\u2019s behavior. I don\u2019t have eyes on my back. Otherwise, I would have run wide. Wright came from behind and rode the handlebars out of my hands before I knew it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nRoglic said he felt \u201cslightly better\u201d on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
\nHe would not say if he thought he would race again this season.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI can walk a little bit I am happy with that for the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAs marks of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, riders paused at the start line for a minute and the British-based Ineos team wore black armbands.<\/p>\n
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