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The victory for the 29-year-old comes after a third place at the Giro d'Italia this year, another Grand Tour. He sat out the Tour de France to prepare for la Vuelta but also because he became father for the first time.

In his debut appearance in a Grand Tour Race, the 20-year old UAE Team Emirates rider became only a third Slovenian with a stage win at the tour of Spain after Borut Božič and Matej Mohorič.

Roglič, who already won the opening time trial, finished today's race on wet roads that ended with a 12-kilometre ascent to San Marino, in 51 minutes and 52 seconds.

Belgian Victor Campenaerts, the European champion who broke the hour record last month, came 11 seconds behind him, followed by Dutch Bauke Mollema, who was a minute behind.

Four-time champion Chris Froome was among riders who had their eyes treated for tear gas or pepper spray aimed at the peloton when a farmer’s protest interrupted the 16th stage of the Tour de France on July 24, 2018. Click through for the story in 20 photos...

Britain's Chris Froome has completed a sensational comeback to win the Giro d'Italia for a rare Grand Tour treble which could be in danger if he is sanctioned by anti-doping authorities.

Israel enters uncharted territory on May 4 when it begins hosting the three opening stages of the Giro d'Italia, the biggest international sporting event to be held in the country.

Chris Froome insisted that “misinformation” has led to rival riders calling for him to be suspended after an abnormal doping test, as he started his season at the Ruta del Sol on Feb. 14.

Jay McCarthy became the first local rider to win the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race yesterday, battling through extreme heat to finish in a sprint ahead of Italian Elia Viviani.

Australian sprinter Caleb Ewan surged past world champion Peter Sagan to win the second stage of the Tour Down Under and claim the ochre leader’s jersey in the Adelaide Hills town of Stirling on Jan. 17.

Germany’s Andre Greipel opened his 2018 season in style when he claimed the first stage of the Tour Down Under in the South Australian town of Lyndoch yesterday.