Vuelta a España - Stage 3
Vuelta a Espana - Stage 3
The peloton circles the bay of Pontevedra after leaving Marin...
Fabio Feline needs a quick fix to adjust his seat...
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Rudiger Selik leads the day's early escape with six others...
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May peace be with you bro' - Alejandro Valverde is in good form...
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George Bennett is carrying ice cubes in his helmet - but they'll quickly melt in this heat..!
Andrew Talansky is in good form too, even when he's collecting water bottles for his teamates...
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Ivan Rovny is hard at work with a nine-bottle gilet to carry...
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Riccardo Zoidl makes good use of his water - he's hot not thirsty..!
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Tejay Van Garderen is assigned to bottle-carrrying work for BMC today...
Christian Knees starts to chase for Team Sky with the gap at about seven minutes...
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Simon Pellaud has attacked from the escape on a nasty 3rd-category climb...
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Team Sky is chasing as one now, but the gap to Pellaud has grown back to six minutes...
Pierre Rolland has found a way to carry and drink cool water at the same time as he's climbing...
Pellaud has pulled out a one-minute gap on his co-escapees with 40-kilometres to go...
The peloton is almost intact as it crosses the spectacular summit of the Alto Das Paxareiras...
Svein Tuft chases ahead of a cluster of Orica teamates, including Esteban Chaves...
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Pellaud is now attacking the last 20-kilometres, but he's about to be caught by his chasers...
Michal Kwiatkowski is near the head of the peloton as it starts to wind up the pace...
Ian Boswell puts the hammer down even more...
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Chris Froome speeds through a corner on the way to the last climb...
Alexandre Geniez leads Peter Serry and Pellaud into the final climb, but their lead is less than two minutes now...
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Alexandre Geniez wins stage 3 - what a day for the popular Frenchman..!
Ruben Fernandez finishes 21-seconds behind Geniez after jumping away from the peloton and the overall favourites...
Alberto Contador finishes too, but he's lost another 30-seconds to his main rivals, Froome and Quintana...
Talansky looks shattered after finishing 24th, 1' 15" down on Geniez...
Ruben Fernandez is the new race-leader..!