LA FARRAPONA, Spain (AP) — Marc Soler of Spain won the mountainous 14th stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Saturday while Jonas Vingegaard kept the race lead with a week to go.

UAE Emirates, which is without star rider Tadej Pogačar, has now won half of the stages at this year’s Vuelta, including the last four.

Soler dropped his last challenger on the final push up the category-one La Farrapona ascent and maintained his distance from Vingegaard’s group with the other title hopefuls.

He finished the 136-kilometer (84-mile) stage — which started in Aviles and took the peloton over the green hills of northern Spain — in 3 hours, 48 minutes. It was the 31-year-old Soler’s fourth stage win at a Vuelta.

Vingegaard, of Visma-Lease a Bike, finished second, barely edging top rival João Almeida at t

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