Nicolas Roche has taken over the overall leader's red jersey at the Vuelta a España today. The Irishman finished third in today's stage, from Jerez de la Frontera and Estepona in Andalusia to head the general classification.
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The Team Saxo-Tinkoff rider didn't even come into the Vuelta as team leaser but after the eight stage now holds a 17 second lead over second place Chris Horner.
Roche is the first Irishman to lead a Grand Tour since Sean Kelly.
The multilinguist even has time to show off his Spanish Skills with lavuelta.es in this video.
