Jose Sarmiento is the first to attack on the nasty hills of Asturias...
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Vasil Kiryienka and Dario Cataldo lead a massive 32-man escape away - there are a variety of tactics and loyalties involved in the escape...
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Chris Horner reaches for a can of Coke in the quieter period as the escape pulls away...
Gregory Rast pulls the peloton along in his wake as the serious work begins...
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Nicholas Edet and Vasil Kiryienka have split the escape n the 'wall' of Tenetbredo...
Six minutes later, Movistar does the same to the already-stressed peloton...
Simon Clarke jumps across the split, but the peloton will re-group soon afterwards...
Jerome Coppel leads a re-grouped escape towards the final climbs - but their lead is down to five-minutes..
Tiralongo and Elissonde attack from the escape on the penultimate ascent of the Alto del Cordal...
Chris Horner seems to be chatting socially with an Euskatel rider as the peloton starts its climb of the Cordal...
Katusha lead the chase up the Cordal, the gap is now about four minutes...
Elissonde and Tiralongo discuss their tactcs as the Angliru climb begins...
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Dani Moreno take son an energy drink as he leads the offensive for Rodriguez on the Angliru...
Elissonde leads Tiralongo, but the Italian will drop back voluntarily to await Nibali's arrival, leaving Elissonde to win the stage...
Flecha has also dropped back from the original escape, conveniently just as Nibali attacks from the Rodriguez-Horner group..
Horner leads Valverde and Rodriguez as the serious racing begins...
Nibali is away, it looks as if he has cracked Horner at the very start of the climb...
Horner reacts, but he is bringing Rodriguez with him...
Nibali has Horner and Rodriguez about to join him...
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Nibali makes another attack, is this the winning one..?
Horner sprints after Nibali, he's dropped Valverde but still has Rodriguez with him...
Nibali attacks again just as Horner reaches him...
Tiralongo and Fuglsang have dropped back from the original escape and now offer a big threat to Horner...
Nibali goes again, making another gap for Horner to close down...
Nibali and Horner dance to the tune of some local fans...
Nibali attacks again, there's no stopping the Italian today...
Horner closes in on Nibali in the last few kilometres - who's going to blow up first..?!
Horner is starting to glow as he passes Nibali in the last two-kilometres...
Horner is finally alone in the last-kilometre - Nibali is the one who's blown...
Nibali concedes the Vuelta to Horner, but what a fight he made of it..!
Alejandro Valverde has been forgotten in the battle but he'll cling on to his 3rd-place overall...
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Nicholas Roche has had an awful day - he'll lose 3' 42" but still hang on to 5th place overall...
Kenny Eissonde celebrates winning atage twenty..!