Vuelta a España (Spain) - Press Release: Jesus Herrada (Cofidis) couldn’t hold up his tears after giving everything he had to win stage 7 of La Vuelta 22. The Spanish baroudeur narrowly edged Samuele Battistella (Astana Qazaqstan) and Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) in Cistierna after a 190km stage covered at a brutal pace to hold off the bunch. He takes his 2nd stage win in the Spanish Grand Tour, 3 years after the previous one. Sprinters teams, and especially Mads Pedersen’s Trek-Segafredo, tried to control the day ahead of two gruelling stages in the Asturias. But the peloton eventually came up short as Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe) crossed the line with a gap of 29’’ to the stage winner. Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) is only the 2nd Belgian rider to retain the overall leadership for more than a day in La Vuelta in the last 40 years, after Philippe Gilbert in 2010.