Overview
- Race officials suspended and then canceled the 174-km Stage 3 after heavy rain turned to hail and left roads icy, with no stage winner or podium declared.
- Riders sought shelter on the roadside and repeatedly signaled the peloton to slow as conditions deteriorated and organizers neutralized the race for safety.
- Mats Wenzel and Lorenzo Fortunato were on a breakaway when the stage was called off and their efforts were ended without official times changing.
- Tadej Pogačar remains the race leader on unchanged standings, nine seconds ahead of Wout van Aert with Matthew Brennan in third.
- The Vuelta will continue with a short, mountainous 105-km stage through Andorra that is expected to reshape tactics, and the race still finishes in Granada on Sept. 13 as Pogačar pursues a sweep of Grand Tours.