Vuelta a España - Stage 16: Alcañiz > Peñascosa, 156.4kms

Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Mario Costa - brother of Rui Costa - leads the day's early escape away from the very first kilometre...

Vuelta a España - Stage 16

The view from the peloton shows the quintet pulling away on a long, dry, hot, road to no-where...

Vuelta a España - Stage 16

The Aragaon desert has engulfed the Vuelta peloton as it pedals along, four minutes down on the escape...

Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Simon Yates gets going again after a crash with teamate Sam Bewley...

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Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Yates gets patched up by the race doctor as Bewley awaits to pace his teamate back to the peloton...

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Vuelta a Espana - Stage 16

The peloton climbs into the walled town of Castillo de Morella, exactly halfway through the stage...

Vuelta a Espana - Stage 16

Ben King hands a lump of ice to teamate Moreno Moser as the temperatures soar...

Vuelta a Espana - Stage 16

Michael Gogl is once again Tinkoff's bottle mule today...

Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Davide Villela is keeping the escape four minutes in front, but they'll start to weaken soon...

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Vuelta a Espana - Stage 16

The peloton is experiencing the lesser-known beauty of the Aragon desert as it chases the escape towards the coast...

Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Michael Golas chats with Chris Froome about what's left in the Vuelta for Team Sky...

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Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Nairo Quintana looks suitably happy with his Vuelta thus far...

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Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Sam Bewley takes a water bottle from Simon Gerrans who's become Orica's bottle mule today...

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Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Silvan Dillier is fighting to stay away from the peloton, as is Luis Angel Maté and Sven Erik Bystrom...

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Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Peter Kennaugh has moved to the front in the last ten-kilometres, purely to keep Froome out of trouble on the twisty streets...

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Vuelta a España - Stage 16

Gianni Meersman has run out of steam in the long sprint to the finish-line....

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Vuelta a Espana - Stage 16

Jean-Pierre Drucker wins stage sixteen from Rudiger Selig and Niklas Arndt...