CERLER, Spain (AP) — Spanish rider Juan Ayuso won a mountainous seventh stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Friday to bounce back from a poor performance the previous day, while Torstein Traeen of Norway kept the overall lead.

Ayuso attacked on an ascent with 11 kilometers (seven miles) to go and dropped the rest of a breakaway bunch on the way up to the category-one summit finish in the Pyrenees. He completed the up-and-down 188-kilometer (116-mile) trek from Andorra to Cerler, Spain, in 4 hours, 49 minutes.

The UAE Emirates rider, who won the Tirreno-Adriatico in March and the 2024 Tour of Basque Country, is one of Spain’s top young cycling talents. But he struggled on Thursday in the mountains of Andorra, falling 10 minutes behind and saying goodbye to any chance to challenging for the tit

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