Nairo Quintana (Movistar), who had a great first week of the Vuelta a España, admitted that he lost more time than expected to new race leader Primoš Roglic (Jumbo Visma) in the time trial to the Pau on stage 10, which set him back significantly ...

Before the stage 10 time trial, Quintana repeatedly described Roglic as the real leader of the Vuelta and said it would be very difficult for him to keep the leader's jersey.

When it came down to it, however, Quintana not only lost the leader's jersey, but also the lead in the points standings to the Slovenian.

Quintana was 1 minute 26 seconds behind at the first checkpoint and 2 minutes 12 seconds behind at the second.

As a result, Quintana dropped to fourth place overall, three minutes behind Roglic, but the Slovenian's nightmare was far from over.

Quintana's compatriot Tadej Pogachar (UAE Team Emirates) is close behind Roglic.

Quintana was looking for a place to warm down on the roller stand behind the winner's podium. But in less time than it took him to lose to Roglic in the TT, he was surrounded by journalists trying to figure out why the Colombian champion had done so poorly in the Vuelta's only race against time, the individual race.

"It wasn't a good day. I lost more time than I expected, two minutes would have been fine, but three minutes was more than I expected," Quintana said.

"We still have to fight back as much as we can and see if we can attack Roglic in the mountains. That's our only option.

Quintana was cautious when asked about the long-running leadership problems within Movistar.

After winning stage 2, Quintana appeared to be riding for his own chances, but after stage 5, the Alto de Jabalambre, he said he was working for Valverde. Then, on stages 7 and 9, he again outpaced Valverde to take the overall lead.

But after Tuesday's time trial, Valverde moved into second place overall, 1:08 behind Quintana.

"I don't know at the moment. But as he stressed, "We have to attack Roglic."

After two transition stages, Movistar's first clear opportunity is the summit finish of Los Machucos on Friday, the same climb where Chris Froome ran into serious trouble in the 2017 Vuelta after opening a large lead in the time trial of La Rioja It's the same climb as.

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