Vuelta a Espana - Stage 14
Robert Gesink is pedalling away at the head of a 43-man escape..!
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Davide Villela is one of three Cannondale riders in this big escape...
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Team Sky have taken control of the peloton, with Christian Knees hard at work...
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The peloton is five minutes down as it starts the nasty ascent of the Col Inharpu...
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The peloton is climbing the Inharpu, a beautiful yet unknown inclusion in the Vuelta...
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The peloton has noticeably thinned out halfway up the Inharpu..!
Alberto Losada is in the escape but needs some re-hydration with the temperatures soaring...
Ian Boswell leads Team Sky in the last kilometre of the 'wall' of Inharpu - possibly the toughest climb in this Vuelta...
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Tyler Farrar demonstrates the agony of climbing such a mountain when you are not a climber..!
Jacques Janse Van Rensburg shows the wounds from a downhill crash off the Inharpu...
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Tejay Van Garderen leads the big escape up the Col du Soudet - their lead is still around five-minutes...
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Simon Gerrans and Magnus-Cort Nielsen lead the escape now, part of a cunning Orica-Green Edge plan for the day...
Team Sky lead the peloton, but their faces show the agony of the heat and the gradient...
Haimar Zubeldia takes his turn at the front of the race - this is Trek's biggest move of the Vuelta so far...
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Nairo Quintana swoops down the Soudet with two more mountains to climb to protect his race-lead...
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Nielsen leads the escape up the Col de Marie-Blanque, trying to keep the escape over four minutes clear...
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Jack Haig has attacked from the peloton, and he has teamate Simon Yates racing across to join him...
Jan Bakelants leads a smaller escape of five riders along the valley after the Marie-Blanque - they attacked over the summit...
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Gerrans has dropped out of the escape to pace Yates across towards the leading escape...
Yates is racing up the Col d'Aubisque in pursuit of a stage-win and a higher overall position..!
Geaorge Bennett leads the front escape that's now gorwn to six, including Kenny Elissonde...
Villela is leading a chase group that includes Gesink and Cataldo - they are just 30-seconds back, and being chased by Yates...
Yates is eating up the ground between the peloton and the chase-escape - but can he maintain the momentum..?
Astana leads a small group of favourites, including Quintana and Froome, who are over two-minutes further back...
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Andrew Talansky has attacked from the group of favourites who have their own agendas today...
Sammy Sanchez is another one attacking - he'll try and catch Talansky...
Quintana has made his first attack, but no-one's taking the bait yet...
Talansky has caught Konig, and is making a bigger gap on the favourites...
Esteban Chaves has made his big move, attacking the Quintana group and crossing the gap towards Talansky...
Chaves has easily caught and dropped Sanchez with three-kilometres left...
Quintana and Froome are duelling while others make their own gains...
Pierre Rolland has dropped off the escape to await Takansky, and then tow him to a bigger gap over the chasers...
Robert Gesink wins atop the Col d'Aubisque - an amazing performance from this classic stage-racer..!
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George Bennett takes fourth-place at 31-seconds to move close to a top ten place overall...
Simon Yates takes fifth at 39-seconds to leapfrog into 4th place overall - a remarkable ride!
Andrew Talansky takes eighth place at 1' 14" to move to 8th place overall - followed by Chaves who now takes 3rd-place overall..!
Nairo Quintana sprints away from Froome to retain his race-lead, but Froome is marginally the winner of the day...
Alberto Contador takes nineteenth place to drop down to 6th place overall...
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