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. That already surpasses the six wins by Quick-Step Floors in 2017 for the highest win total for a team this century at the Spanish Grand Tour.

“Fifty percent of the Vuelta, it is amazing,” Soler said about his team’s success.

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 pe

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