Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Vuelta a Espana - Stage 8
Peter Serry and Mattia Cattaneo lead a huge escape after a few kilometres of racing...
Alberto Contador is the centre of attention with more bandages on him than clothing..!
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Scott Thwaites is in thre escape as well, a sign of his growing ambitions at Bora...
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Silvan Dillier is driving the BMC train ahead of a peloton already eight minutes behind...
Darwin Atapuma faces the first real assault on his race-lead today...
David Lopez Garcia has enough energy to play with Michal Golas - but not for much longer, the work is about to begin...
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Austria's Michael Gogl is the man wearing the bottle gilet and supplying Contador with some drinks today...
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The peloton is chasing the escape at the same speed as the escape - and getting no closer to them as a result..!
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Dillier and BMC are really driving the peloton along with 40-kilometres to go and a deficit of over ten minutes..!
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Jacques Janse Van Rensburg is the escaper approaching the final kilometres with a chance at winning today...
Robert Gesink is the former-leader of Lotto-Jumbo now leading out George Bennett near the foot of the last climb...
Ben King and Jens Keukeleire are also trying to set up their leaders for the final climb...
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Jonathan Castroviejo takes up his responsibilities for Movistar as the real climb begins...
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So far, so good for Contador, who's riding easily ahead of Yates and Dombrowski...
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Atapuma is ahead of Chaves and Contador, but behind Movistar's acceleration...
Alejandro Valverde leads the favourites with three-kilometres to go, but nothing has actually happened yet..!
Sergio Pardilla has a go at attacking, but he'll not get far on these steep slopes...
Valverde maintains control of the favourites' group with two-kilometres to go...
Contador and Chaves make a move after a steep turn, but they too cannot get free...
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Chris Froome is now leading the charge, but he looks less than great at the moment...
Froome persists with his move, but Quintana is about to jump past him with one-kilometre to go..!
Quintana has pulled away from Froome and heads to the finish with a decent gap...
Sergey Lagutin won stage eight, 10-seconds ahead of his closest challenger and a whopping 4' 41" ahead of Quintana..!
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Nairo Quintana is the new race-leader - 19-seconds ahead of Alejandro Valverde, and 27-seconds ahead of Chris Froome...