Vuelta a España stage 18: Roa > Riaza, 204kms

Tour of Spain - Stage 18

The peloton is racing flat-out from the very first kilometres...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

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...

Tour of Spain - Stage 18

The presence of Adam Hansen, Kristijan Durasek and Nicholas Roche means this is no foolish escape...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Jose Goncalves and Amets Txurruka lead a 24-man escape away after 50-kilometres of racing...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Giant-Alpecin is already chasing the escape with a four-minute gap between them...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Joaquin Rodriguez may yet have a role to play in deciding the winner of this Vuelta...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

"Let's talk business then" - Fabio Aru and Alejandro Valverde have the time to discuss their tactics...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

The peloton crests a climb halfway throught the stage...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

MTN chases instead of Giant-Alpecin, despite the fact that they have Louis Mentjes in the escape...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Sebastian Minard leads the big escape into the hills with a lead of five-minutes...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Haimar Zubeldia is pushing the pace in the escape, he smells a chance of winning this stage..!

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

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...

Tour of Spain - Stage 18

The peloton chases hard, but the twisty, undulating, roads are slowing their progress...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Fabio Aru and Tom Dumoulin are keeping a constant watch on each other..

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

The peloton races across the plains of Castilla y Leon in pursuit of the escape...

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Esteban Chaves attacks now, but Valverde is chasing him down...

Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Aru attacks Dumoulin on the final climb, but Dumoulin sits-in and stays cool...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Nicholas Roche leads on the last climb with only Zubeldia chasing him...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Valverde is controlling the favourites group one minute behind the original escape...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Mikel Nieve has attacked from the favourites, but he won't get too far...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Zubeldia and Roche are together near the summit with 40-seconds over Valverde's group...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Zubeldia and Roche will fight out the stage-win today...

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Tour of Spain - Stage 18

Valverde looks back at Aru as Dumoulin breathes deeper - but the race-leader is out of danger for today...

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Nicholas Roche wins stage eighteen from Haimar Zubeldia..!