Cycling: Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) has won the first mountain finish of this year's Tour of Catalonia. In the uphill sprint, he successfully beat Daniel Martin (Quick-Step Floors). Both were able to break away from the group of favorites around 300 meters from the finish. The overall leader's white jersey from Ben Hermans (BMC) has been taken over by his teammate Tejay Van Garderen. The Movistar team was stripped of yesterday's team time trial win. The Spanish squad also had to accept a time penalty of one minute for all drivers. Jose Joaquin Rojas had pushed teammates several times. According to the regulations, this is not allowed and must be punished in this way. In the overall standings, Van Garderen is now 41 seconds ahead of teammate Samuel Sanchez. Alejandro Valverde is 45 seconds behind, Chris Froome 49 seconds and Contador 1:13 minutes.
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