Vuelta a España - Stage 8: Villalpando > La Camperona / Valle de Sabero, 181.5kms

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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...
Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Alberto Contador is the centre of attention with more bandages on him than clothing..!
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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Scott Thwaites is in thre escape as well, a sign of his growing ambitions at Bora...
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Vuelta a Espana - Stage 8
Silvan Dillier is driving the BMC train ahead of a peloton already eight minutes behind...
Vuelta a Espana - Stage 8
Darwin Atapuma faces the first real assault on his race-lead today...
Vuelta a España - Stage 8
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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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Austria's Michael Gogl is the man wearing the bottle gilet and supplying Contador with some drinks today...
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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
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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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
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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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Jacques Janse Van Rensburg is the escaper approaching the final kilometres with a chance at winning today...
Vuelta a Espana - Stage 8
Robert Gesink is the former-leader of Lotto-Jumbo now leading out George Bennett near the foot of the last climb...
Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Ben King and Jens Keukeleire are also trying to set up their leaders for the final climb...
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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Jonathan Castroviejo takes up his responsibilities for Movistar as the real climb begins...
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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
So far, so good for Contador, who's riding easily ahead of Yates and Dombrowski...
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Vuelta a Espana - Stage 8
Atapuma is ahead of Chaves and Contador, but behind Movistar's acceleration...
Vuelta a Espana - Stage 8
Alejandro Valverde leads the favourites with three-kilometres to go, but nothing has actually happened yet..!
Vuelta a Espana - Stage 8
Sergio Pardilla has a go at attacking, but he'll not get far on these steep slopes...
Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Valverde maintains control of the favourites' group with two-kilometres to go...
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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Contador and Chaves make a move after a steep turn, but they too cannot get free...
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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Chris Froome is now leading the charge, but he looks less than great at the moment...
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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Froome persists with his move, but Quintana is about to jump past him with one-kilometre to go..!
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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Quintana has pulled away from Froome and heads to the finish with a decent gap...
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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Sergey Lagutin won stage eight, 10-seconds ahead of his closest challenger and a whopping 4' 41" ahead of Quintana..!
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Vuelta a España - Stage 8
Nairo Quintana is the new race-leader - 19-seconds ahead of Alejandro Valverde, and 27-seconds ahead of Chris Froome...
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