Vuelta a España stage 10 LIVE – Jay Vine part of nine-rider lead group approaching the final climb to Larra Belagua

The gap is 38 seconds. The chase group are working, but also thinking that they can close it on the climb.

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Camera operator just got whiplash panning to some sheep. He has his priorities right.

Segaert is really powering on. He’s got 41 seconds now.

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Here’s Segaert in the break, before he attacked.

He has a 33-second lead now.

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Segaert already has a 25 second gap!

Alec Segaert is on the attack from the leaders!

He went through the 20km to go banner.

The final climb starts at 9.9km to go.

The average gradient is 6.3%, and they’ll climb up to 1,590m above sea level.

The riders just roll through. Julien Bernard takes the maximum points.

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Bahrain are doing a good job at keeping the gap at a steady three minutes.

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Just approaching the intermediate sprint – the seconds and points probably don’t matter to any of these riders, but maybe someone wants a cash prize.

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Here’s part of the lead group.

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Kevin Vermaerke has just joined the lead group.

The young American is a name you should know – he’s off to UAE next year.

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Remember, even if the break are going to win this stage, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to see some GC action on the climb to Larra Belagua…

Vingegaard has already been active today, and only needs to take 37 seconds on Træen to take red.

The nine riders are working well together, whilst the chasers aren’t really. These nine will be thinking about the stage win now.

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Rob Hatch has just called Ayuso’s interview this morning – and UAE’s management of it – a ‘disasterclass’.

Alec Segaert has joined the leaders

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There’s a bit more cohesion in the lead group now.

About 25km to go before the official start of the final climb, but the road is gently uphill until then.

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There’s no organisation in the chasing group, so riders are going at it alone, which is a tough ask, especially against eight leaders.

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Vine is trying to get the group working – only him and Azparren were really rolling through. He’s a bit frustrated.

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These eight riders are 25 seconds ahead of the rest of the break.

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The eight riders are:

Vine, Romo, Bernard, Aular, Ryan, Azparren, Conci and Balderstone.

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Romo and Vine caught, making eight riders in front.

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The leaders are about to be caught by some more breakaway chasers.

Romo and Vine are working together here and pushing hard.

Jay Vine joins Javier Romo.

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Romo is pushing on, trying to win the stage, but he’s only nine seconds ahead of Vine. The break are at 28 seconds.

The gap to the peloton is approaching three minutes, so it seems like we could have a breakaway win today.

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Here’s more on what Juan Ayuso said at the start of the stage.

Today could be his last day on the race – it wouldn’t be surprising if he or the team pulled him out after this.

Romo takes the maximum points atop the climb, as Vine grabs some in second too. Pablo Castrillo takes the final point.

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Jay Vine is attacking out of the break now.

He’s looking for some mountains points at the top of the climb, to extend his lead in the jersey.

Romo has 25 seconds on the break, with the peloton 2:10 back on them.

2km to the top of this climb.

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The gap has just tipped over two minutes.

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And we’re about halfway up the Alto de Las Coronas.

Javier Romo is attacking from the break as the climb eases off a touch. He’s on his own for now, but some riders are trying to bridge up to him.

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The gap is up 1:48 now, but there’s still a lot of climbing to come.

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Here’s a look at your red jersey, Torstein Træen. He’s not giving up without a fight, that’s clear.

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The leaders are onto the penultimate climb the cat. 3 Alto de las Coronas.

It’s 8.3km long, with a 4.4% average gradient.

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Here’s the leaders, there are 30 of them now after some riders made the junction.

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Ryan, Quinn and Lecerf have made the junction.

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Riders are attacking from the break still.

The gap is 1:19.

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Bahrain Victorious are keeping the gap at a minute. Not fully sure why. They shouldn’t want Træen to have to face a full-out GC fight on the final climb.

Meanwhile, Bjerg is pushing the break on. No Visma riders are in the group, and Jay Vine could be on for a second stage win.

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Junior Lecerf from Soudal-QuickStep is with the EF riders trying to bridge.

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The gap is up to over a minute now.

Looks like this group is allowed to go.

Okay, here are the riders in the lead:

Bjerg, Vine, Bernard, Aular, Castrillo, Romo, Sobrero, Zwiehoff, Vervaeke, Kwiatkowski, Armirail, Staune-Mittet, Azparren, González, Tejada, Conci, Masnada, Molard, Balderstone, Nicolau, Ortuba, Thierry, Leemreize, Vermaerke, Craps, Segaert, Côté.

Sean Quinn and Archie Ryan from EF Education-EasyPost are trying to bridge across.

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The riders in front don’t really want to be in a 25 rider group, so riders are attacking the attack.

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The gap is only a handful of seconds, so I’m not going to type out the 25 names just yet, given they may be caught before I manage it…

In the main peloton, Bahrain are doing the work and Visma are just behind them.

UAE are represented with two riders – Vine and Bjerg – up front.

A gap has opened up with a group of about 25 riders in front.

Jay Vine and Michael Kwiatkowski are amongst it, Bahrain are trying to close it behind.

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Q36.5 are one of the other teams who have been keen to be in front.

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The peloton is super strung out.

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Visma have sat up a bit, and some more expected riders are attacking again.

The average speed is still 49.3km/h. Wild.

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The gaps are only small, but Almeida is not in the front group with Vingegaard, and nor is red jersey Træen.

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Could we see Jonas Vingegaard go on a really long range attack here? Or is he just testing his rivals?

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Campenaerts is dragging out a group here, with Vingegaard on his wheel.

There are 10 riders in front with a small gap behind them.

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Victor Campenaerts has just dragged Jonas Vingegaard up to the very front of the bunch on the descent…

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Bagioli and Tejada are back in the bunch. Things are super spread out.

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Andrea Bagioli and Harold Tejada are trying to push on, they have a little gap.

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Mads Pedersen is dropping away now, after spending most of his day so far at the front.

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We’re onto a bit of a rise now.

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It’s not really clear exactly which team is working so hard to keep this together. Seems like loads of teams are fighting at the front, not just one team controlling things.

It’s just through and off for the riders who are trying to get away.

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The peloton is definitely slowing down a bit, unsurprisingly.

Maybe the elastic will finally snap soon.

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It’s crazy how intense the peloton has been going for two hours straight.

85km in now and they’re still attacking at the front.

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Matteo Jorgenson is coming back to the peloton after dropping by the medical car.

Hopefully nothing too serious for him.

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80km down already, we’re nearly halfway though the stage.

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There are a couple more uncategorised climbs coming soon, and then the cat. 3 Alto de Las Coronas before the final climb.

These could help some attacks go, but we may also see the peloton stay together to the last climb.

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Here’s what was the break.

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Vine is back in the bunch.

Raul García Pierna has abandoned after crashing earlier.

A shame, because he’s had a strong start to this Vuelta.

75km done and Jay Vine is caught. All together again.

And still no proper break. Wow what a day.

Romo and Van der Lee have been caught, but Vine is trying to push on on his own.

Not sure how long that will last, never good to be a solo breakaway rider.

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The gap is about 18 seconds. The peloton haven’t entirely sat up and let this go yet.

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Gap is up to 15 seconds. These riders will be praying this one sticks.

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We may have a break!

Three riders have a small gap after 66km – Jay Vine (UAE Team-Emirates-XRG), Javier Romo (Movistar) and Jardi van der Lee (EF Education-EasyPost).

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Looks like UAE are very keen to have a rider in the break today – there’s always one of their riders at the front of the bunch and riding aggressively.

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Riders are attacking, it’s definitely not settled or as if no one is trying.

It’s just that absolutely nothing is sticking as the peloton rips through Navarra at still nearly 50km/h.

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60km completed and still no break. This is probably the longest this has taken all race.

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Not sure exactly who was involved in that crash yet, but Raul García Pierna was one of them.

The other riders are making their way back into the peloton.

Many riders have gone down in the bunch.

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A lot of riders are spending a lot of energy here.

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The riders that have been trying all race – Pedersen, Vine – will be getting tired now, with still no break going clear.

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Jay Vine is one of the riders involved in the break fight.

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Average speed so far is 52km/h! Wow.

50km done in the first hour and still no break.

Pretty hard return to racing after the rest day.

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These long fights for the breakaway tend to actually disadvantage the escapees, not just because they’ve had to work harder to get in it, but they have less time to build up a gap before the finale.

So riders will be hoping something sticks soon.

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Still all together as the tense breakaway composition continues.

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One non-starter today, Picnic PostNL’s Casper van Uden.

He’s a young sprinter, and there aren’t many sprint opportunities left, so he’ll rest instead of trudge through the mountains.

40km done and still no breakaway. They haven’t even been racing for an hour, to give you an idea of the speed.

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This a great image of what the break formation/battle looks like.

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35km done and still no break sticking.

This means the peloton are thinking that whatever goes has a chance of making it to the line, so they want to be selective, and let a group go that either isn’t threatening for GC, or that they can catch.

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Simply nothing is sticking.

Green jersey Mads Pedersen has been amongst the fight for moves.

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The average speed is over 50km/h right now.

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Sounds like things are back together again.

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The peloton has split – not sure just yet who is in the first part.

This is a rapid start!

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20km done now. It’s been a super fast start.

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Aaand they’re caught. Back together again.

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Four riders up the road

Four riders are on the move – Andrea Bagioli (Lidl-Trek), Harold Tejada (XDS Astana), Rémi Cavagna (Groupama-FDJ) and Jaume Guardeño (Caja Rural Seguros RGA) are up the road.

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This could go on for quite a while, though typically in this Vuelta, the breakaway has been established relatively quickly – not like the two-hour fights we sometimes saw in the Tour de France.

And we’re racing!

175km stand between the peloton and the finish line.

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Even if it’s a breakaway day, the GC could well be shaken up on the 9.4km final climb.

Here’s a reminder of how things stand:

Torstein Træen (Bahrain Victorious)Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +0:37João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +1:15Tom Pidcock (Q36.5) +1:35Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) +2:14

There we go, the riders are away.

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Seems like the neutral start might be running a little late.

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Current jerseys

Here’s a reminder of who is wearing what jerseys, if you forgot over the rest day.

Red jersey: Torstein Træen (Bahrain Victorious)

White jersey: Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)

Polka dot jersey: Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)

Green jersey: Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek)

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The stage will get underway in a few minutes with the neutral roll-out at 12:55 CEST.

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Ayuso will start stage 10

Juan Ayuso has got out the team bus, dressed and ready, and has taken selfies with fans, so we can assume he will start the stage today despite yesterday’s dramatic news.

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The riders are currently signing on in the Sendaviva nature reserve.

You can, as ever, watch the podium protocol live on X, if you so wish.