LA VUELTA 2017: Marczynski twice winner, Froome twice on the ground

Antequera. Los Dólmenes, Thursday, August 31th – Already winner of stage 6, Tomasz Marczynski (Lotto Soudal) led another victorious breakaway on stage 12 of La Vuelta. The Polish rider dropped all his companions in the last climb of the day to solo to the win at Antequera, on Thursday. Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) enjoyed that same climb to go on the move again… and Chris Froome (Team Sky) crashed twice in the following downhill. The British rider will spend a 10th consecutive day in red tomorrow but he lost 20 seconds to Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida), now trailing by 59 seconds on GC, and 42 to Contador.