Six years after Simon Yates broke away on the Alto de Jasallanas and won solo in Granada at the Vuelta a Andalucía, his brother Adam Yates repeated family history by attacking and winning solo in the same city of Vuelta a España, also on the Jasallanas climb.

Simon's victory came in 2018, in an early season stage race, when he attacked 27km from the line, while Adam Yates' Vuelta a España win came on stage 9, when he broke away in the break of the day and dropped all his rivals about 60km ahead He grabbed it after dropping all of his rivals with about 60km to go.

The UAE Team Emirates rider had a “full on” cramp on the final descent into the city and later said he had never suffered so much in the heat. However, apart from his stunning solo victory, he was 1:39 ahead of Richard Kalapas (EF Education-Easy Post) and 3:45 ahead of the leader group, moving up 20 places in the overall standings to 7th on GC.

As Yates told reporters, it was more important for him to achieve his second career Grand Tour stage win than GC. Winning in a city that has a strong personal attachment to him, as he was married in Granada last year, made it even more special. [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] For the UAE rider, who lost time after crashing in the Sierra in Cadiz three days ago, this was truly a turnaround of fortunes. [To be honest, I could have cared less about GC today.

But when the dust settles his victory will be a mountain ...... Yates now finds himself in a better position overall, and as he said, we will see what he can achieve in the second and third weeks of the Vuelta.

“Joan's retirement was a big loss for us. He crashed, lost time here and there, and I lost a lot of places on GC. [So we did everything we could to win the stage.

“But next week will be much cooler.

“If the heat had continued, I would not have made it to GC. But I'll have a better answer for that too after I see how my legs are doing on Tuesday's stage when it's cooler.”

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