{"id":102036,"date":"2025-08-28T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102036\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:26:08","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-stage-6-live-a-summit-challenge-test-in-andorra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102036\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a stage 6 LIVE: A summit challenge test in Andorra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Refresh <\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:23:41.731Z<\/p>\n

Vervaeke has already been chasing KOM points, and is closing in on Joel Nicolau\u2019s lead. But if Vine is putting his mind to it, he\u2019ll be a real candidate for the jersey given his climbing calibre. Here are the new rankings:<\/p>\n

1 Nicolau 11<\/p>\n

2 Vervaeke 10<\/p>\n

3 Quinn 9<\/p>\n

4 Verre 8<\/p>\n

5 Vingegaard 5<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:21:38.945Z<\/p>\n

Jay Vine won the sprint at the top of the summit, with Vervaeke in second and Fortunato in third.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:19:56.771Z<\/p>\n

These are all ten of the riders in the break, which now leads by about 20 seconds:<\/p>\n

Pablo Castrillo<\/p>\n

Jay Vine<\/p>\n

Bruno Armirail<\/p>\n

Lorenzo Fortunato<\/p>\n

Archie Ryan<\/p>\n

James Shaw<\/p>\n

Torstein Tr\u00e6en<\/p>\n

Ramses Debruyne<\/p>\n

Louis Vervaeke<\/p>\n

Gianmarco Garofoli<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:18:21.592Z<\/p>\n

The riders are over the top of the mountain and are now descending back down it.<\/p>\n

KOM – COLLADA DE SENTIGOSA <\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:15:34.162Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:14:38.161Z<\/p>\n

This group of riders have about 15 seconds on the peloton, as they near the top of the climb.<\/p>\n

160KM TO GO<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:13:03.709Z<\/p>\n

Former Vuelta stage winners Jay Vine and Pablo Castrillo are also in it.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:12:28.678Z<\/p>\n

A few riders have a gap now, of about 10 seconds. Breakaway specialist Bruno Armirail is among them.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:11:27.212Z<\/p>\n

There still hasn\u2019t been a breakaway success at this year\u2019s 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\u2019re in with a shot.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:07:58.502Z<\/p>\n

There have been more attacks, but nothing has succeeded yet.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:01:28.835Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:00:54.721Z<\/p>\n

A quartet of riders broke clear on the early slopes of this time, but were quickly brought back.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T11:00:10.154Z<\/p>\n

The jersey wearers, at the unofficial start.<\/p>\n

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\"OLOT,\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T10:57:08.714Z<\/p>\n

And they’re off!<\/p>\n

OFFICIAL START<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T10:55:52.395Z<\/p>\n

There’s been a slight delay to the official start, but they will be racing soon.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T10:54:02.499Z<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\"OLOT,\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T10:50:36.190Z<\/p>\n

The first of the day\u2019s climbs, Collada de Sentigosa, begins almost right from the flat. It might only be a category three, but it\u2019ll be enough to spark any non-GC climbers with their eye on the stage win to try and get into the break.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T10:48:48.765Z<\/p>\n

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\u2019s our extensive preview of what today has in store.<\/p>\n

Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a stage 6 preview – Which GC contender will conquer the first high mountains challenge?<\/a><\/p>\n

2025-08-28T10:39:58.224Z<\/p>\n

There\u2019s 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\u2019t something spread around the peloton.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T10:38:01.317Z<\/p>\n

The riders are in Olot, a town in Catalonia, and have just set off from the unofficial start.<\/p>\n

2025-08-28T10:36:27.757Z<\/p>\n

You join us for the day that the Vuelta reaches the Pyrenean mountains, for the first real climbing test of the race.<\/p>\n

2025-08-11T16:59:51.438Z<\/p>\n

Hello and welcome to stage 6 of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refresh 2025-08-28T11:23:41.731Z Vervaeke has already been chasing KOM points, and is closing in on Joel Nicolau\u2019s lead. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-102036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}