Andorra la Vella (Andorra), Monday, August 21th – Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) dominated the final stretch of stage 3 of La Vuelta 2017 while Chris Froome (Team Sky) displayed his strength and took the red jersey. The first mountainous challenges of this edition offered intense racing and turned the general classification upside down. Nibali was able to get back to Froome after a strong move from the British rider in the final climb of the day. Nibali claimed his first stage victory at La Vuelta. But Froome is the new overall leader, a position he only occupied for one day in 2011 on the Spanish race. Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) dropped two minutes and a half.
