Cycling-Schleck wins brutal Vuelta stage, Dumoulin favourite (Reuters)
(Repeats to remove extraneous word ‘said’ in 11th para) MADRID, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Luxembourg’s Frank Schleck dug deep to win a brutally mountainous 16th stage of the Tour of Spain on Monday while Joaquim Rodriguez leapfrogged Fabio Aru at the top of the overall standings. Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) is just under two minutes behind Rodriguez in fourth heading into Tuesday’s rest day and is expected to surge into the lead after Wednesday’s time trial in Burgos, a discipline he excels in. “That was much better than expected,” Dumoulin told reporters.