BARCELONA (Reuters) - Joaquim Rodriguez won the Tour of Catalunya for a second time on Sunday when the Team Katusha rider defended his slender overnight lead to pip fellow Spaniard Alberto Contador of Tinkoff-Saxo into second.
Champion in 2010, home favourite Rodriguez had a four-second lead going into the last and shortest of seven stages, a rain-soaked 121-kilometre ride around Barcelona's Montjuic hill.
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