Primoz Roglic set to retain Vuelta crown

Dan Martin is two minutes behind in fourth

Team Jumbo's Slovenian rider Primoz Roglic celebrates on the podium with the overall leader's red jersey after the 17th stage of the 2020 La Vuelta cycling tour of Spain, a 178,2-km race from Sequeros to Alto de La Covatilla, on November 7, 2020. - Roglic is set to win the Vuelta with one stage left. (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP) (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO/AFP via Getty Images)

Primoz Roglic stands to win the Vuelta a Espana for a second consecutive year but was made to work for it as a late attack from second-placed Richard Carapaz halved his advantage and threatened to deliver heartbreak on the penultimate stage.

Two months after Roglic's dreams of Tour de France glory evaporated on the stage 20 time trial, he was in danger of seeing victory once again slip away at the final hurdle as Carapaz attacked on the Alto de La Covatilla.