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Lidl-Trip won the initial group time preliminary phase of the ladies' Vuelta on Sunday regardless of an accident on the last corner.

The group highlights English rider Lizzie Deignan, who has gotten back to contest notwithstanding breaking her arm when she crashed out of the Visit through Flanders only a month prior.

Her Italian colleague Gaia Realini went too far as the primary Lidl-Trip rider and takes the general arrangement lead.

The last snapshots of their time preliminary saw Ellen van Dijk crash, bringing down partner Briton Elynor Backstedt however as Brodie Chapman and Elisa Longo Borghini trusted that Realini and Deignan will get up to speed gone too far only nine-hundredths of a second quicker than second-put Group Visma-Rent.

"Two of my colleagues crashed yet in the end we take this outcome and spotlight on the following stage," Realini said.

The current year's Vuelta has been extended to incorporate eight phases.

Sunday's time preliminary occurred in Valencia and the race will complete in Valdesqui close to Madrid by means of stages through the Pyrenees.