Tour of Spain - Stage 18
The peloton is racing flat-out from the very first kilometres...
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Riccardo Zoidl is struggling with the pace today...
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Yukiya Arashiro is having a nose bleed treated by the race-doctor...
There's still no chance for an escape to get away on such flat roads and with a tailwind...
The presence of Adam Hansen, Kristijan Durasek and Nicholas Roche means this is no foolish escape...
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Jose Goncalves and Amets Txurruka lead a 24-man escape away after 50-kilometres of racing...
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Giant-Alpecin is already chasing the escape with a four-minute gap between them...
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Joaquin Rodriguez may yet have a role to play in deciding the winner of this Vuelta...
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"Let's talk business then" - Fabio Aru and Alejandro Valverde have the time to discuss their tactics...
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The peloton crests a climb halfway throught the stage...
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MTN chases instead of Giant-Alpecin, despite the fact that they have Louis Mentjes in the escape...
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Sebastian Minard leads the big escape into the hills with a lead of five-minutes...
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Haimar Zubeldia is pushing the pace in the escape, he smells a chance of winning this stage..!
Tom Dumoulin swoops through a bend as the race approaches the feed-zone...
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Astana has taken over control of the chase, with Tinkoff to the right and Katusha to the left...
The peloton chases hard, but the twisty, undulating, roads are slowing their progress...
Fabio Aru and Tom Dumoulin are keeping a constant watch on each other..
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The peloton races across the plains of Castilla y Leon in pursuit of the escape...
Esteban Chaves attacks now, but Valverde is chasing him down...
Aru attacks Dumoulin on the final climb, but Dumoulin sits-in and stays cool...
Nicholas Roche leads on the last climb with only Zubeldia chasing him...
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Valverde is controlling the favourites group one minute behind the original escape...
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Mikel Nieve has attacked from the favourites, but he won't get too far...
Zubeldia and Roche are together near the summit with 40-seconds over Valverde's group...
Zubeldia and Roche will fight out the stage-win today...
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Valverde looks back at Aru as Dumoulin breathes deeper - but the race-leader is out of danger for today...
Nicholas Roche wins stage eighteen from Haimar Zubeldia..!