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09/05 12:00 CDT Mas boosts Spanish Vuelta lead as Roglic falls further behind Mas boosts Spanish Vuelta lead as Roglic falls further behind SIERRA DE LA PANDERA, Spain (AP) --- Enric Mas added to his lead of the Spanish Vuelta on a mountainous 14th stage won by Marco Brenner on Saturday. Mas tacked some 25 seconds onto his advantage over Primo? Roglic after dropping the four-time former winner on the final climb and linking up with a front-runner from his Movistar team. Flix Gall crossed with Mas and moved into second place ahead of Roglic in the general classification. Gall is 2 minutes, 6 seconds behind Mas, with Roglic falling to 2:10 behind the leader. Brenner won the grueling 151.9-kilometer (94.4-mile) stage in high temperatures after he bettered his fellow breakaway riders and edged Santiago Buitrago at the finish. Brenner had time to zip up his Tudor team suit just as he crossed the line in 4 hours, 15 minutes, 9 seconds. It was the 24-year-old German rider's first win at a grand tour. The stage was held in an area just north of Granada that was under a heat warning with highs forecast for 38 degrees Celsius (100 Fahrenheit) in Jaen, where the day's racing started. Riders tackled a pair of category-two climbs as they rode through a landscape of sunbaked olive groves before a final ascent to the category-one Sierra de la Pandera. Riders were regularly grabbing water bottles from team helpers and promptly pouring them over their heads or squirting them on teammates. Mas has led the race since Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar withdrew following a crash the previous weekend that has ended his season. Now he has one week of racing left at the Vuelta, where he has finished runner-up on three occasions, in 2018, 2021 and 2022. Mas is trying to become the first Spanish rider to win the home race since Alberto Contador in 2014. The key to Mas finally coming out on top will likely rest on him having a big enough lead to withstand Roglic during a time trial on Stage 18. On Sunday, riders face a 189.7-kilometer route from Palma del Ro to the city of Crdoba. This year's Vuelta is based in southern Spain and without any of its classic mountain finishes in the country's greener north. ___ See full AP coverage of European sports here
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