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2025-08-28T11:23:41.731Z
Vervaeke has already been chasing KOM points, and is closing in on Joel Nicolau’s lead. But if Vine is putting his mind to it, he’ll be a real candidate for the jersey given his climbing calibre. Here are the new rankings:
2025-08-28T11:21:38.945Z
Jay Vine won the sprint at the top of the summit, with Vervaeke in second and Fortunato in third.
2025-08-28T11:19:56.771Z
These are all ten of the riders in the break, which now leads by about 20 seconds:
Torstein Træen
2025-08-28T11:18:21.592Z
The riders are over the top of the mountain and are now descending back down it.
KOM – COLLADA DE SENTIGOSA
2025-08-28T11:15:34.162Z
Giro King of the Mountains winner Lorenzo Fortunato is also in this breakaway. You’d imagine he has his eyes on the KOM points coming up soon at the summit.
2025-08-28T11:14:38.161Z
This group of riders have about 15 seconds on the peloton, as they near the top of the climb.
160KM TO GO
2025-08-28T11:13:03.709Z
Former Vuelta stage winners Jay Vine and Pablo Castrillo are also in it.
2025-08-28T11:12:28.678Z
A few riders have a gap now, of about 10 seconds. Breakaway specialist Bruno Armirail is among them.
2025-08-28T11:11:27.212Z
There still hasn’t been a breakaway success at this year’s Vuelta, but you sense today could be the best chance so far. Much will depend on the strength of the group that does eventually form, and the appetite among the GC contenders to chase them, but the riders will be fighting to get into this break knowing they’re in with a shot.
2025-08-28T11:07:58.502Z
There have been more attacks, but nothing has succeeded yet.
2025-08-28T11:01:28.835Z
Collada de Sentigosa only rises at 4.2%, but will go on for a whole 11.1km, providing a decent amount of time for a break to try and form.
2025-08-28T11:00:54.721Z
A quartet of riders broke clear on the early slopes of this time, but were quickly brought back.
2025-08-28T11:00:10.154Z
The jersey wearers, at the unofficial start.
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2025-08-28T10:57:08.714Z
And they’re off!
OFFICIAL START
2025-08-28T10:55:52.395Z
There’s been a slight delay to the official start, but they will be racing soon.
2025-08-28T10:54:02.499Z
Jonas Vingegaard is again wearing red, after his Visma-Lease a Bike did just about enough to keep it for him from the threat posed by the UAE Team Emirates – XRG leaders from their team time trial victory yesterday.
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2025-08-28T10:50:36.190Z
The first of the day’s climbs, Collada de Sentigosa, begins almost right from the flat. It might only be a category three, but it’ll be enough to spark any non-GC climbers with their eye on the stage win to try and get into the break.
2025-08-28T10:48:48.765Z
There are four mountains to be ridden over today, including two rated category one, the last one coming at the finish – all of which means this will be a big day in the GC race, surely the biggest so far. Here’s our extensive preview of what today has in store.
2025-08-28T10:39:58.224Z
There’s been a small exodus of riders, with three abandoning the race ahead of the stage – Simon Carr, Pepijn Reinderink and Arjen Livyns. All were due to illness, so we can only hope there isn’t something spread around the peloton.
2025-08-28T10:38:01.317Z
The riders are in Olot, a town in Catalonia, and have just set off from the unofficial start.
2025-08-28T10:36:27.757Z
You join us for the day that the Vuelta reaches the Pyrenean mountains, for the first real climbing test of the race.
2025-08-11T16:59:51.438Z
Hello and welcome to stage 6 of the Vuelta a España!