Evenepoel, Boyles, Van Eetvelt, Sanchez and Soler will battle it out together for the win.
30 kilometers from the finish, the leading group is still largely complete. The lead has now increased to more than ten minutes.
The lead of the leading group remained stuck at around six minutes for a long time. This is the margin the peloton wants to give to the escapees.
A huge group has broken away from the peloton. We see Remco Evenepoel, Mattia Cattaneo, James Knox, Finn Fischer Black, Marc Soler, Wilko Kelderman, Geraint Thomas, Wout Poels, Antonio Tiberi, Lenny Martinez, Lennard Kamna, Ben Zoihoff, Jimmy Janssens, Andreas Krohn, Sylvain Meunique, Lienert. Van Eetvelt, Hugh Carthy, Dorina Godon, Damien Toews, Andrea Vendram, Nicolas Prudhomme, Mateo Sobrero, Rui Costa, Ivan Garcia Cortina, Ainer Rubio, Romain Bardet, Elie Gisbert, Andre Zets. Pelayo Sanchez, Fernando Barcelo and Joel Nicolo are in front.
The Vuelta will be decided today. Sepp Kos is in good shape, but a few years ago we saw how a stage like today can be very treacherous. Tom Dumoulin lost his red shirt to Fabio Aru in the mountains surrounding Madrid. Will we witness such a scenario again today?
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