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2025-09-05T14:00:07.329Z
That’s looking like a very healthy leads in the points classification for Pedersen.
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2025-09-05T13:58:13.067Z
Pedersen earned himself 20 more points at the last sprint, meaning this is what the green jersey classification now looks like:
2025-09-05T13:56:57.164Z
The leading quartet are climbing again, up the penultimate mountain of the day, the Alto del Cordal. It’s even steeper than the last, averaging 8.8%, but only for 5.5km.
2025-09-05T13:55:25.851Z
Pedersen takes the points at the intermediate sprint. Chapeau once more to the incomparable Dane! His day is done and he’s dropped out of the break.
INTERMEDIATE SPRINT
2025-09-05T13:54:39.958Z
This is what the peloton had looked like on the previous climb, diminished in numbers before the subsequent regrouping.
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2025-09-05T13:52:34.614Z
Tiberi and Artz are still chasing the 5 leaders, and are getting closer, now just 13 seconds behind.
2025-09-05T13:51:37.940Z
Visma-Lease a Bike have retaken control of the peloton, but that slow down has seen their defecit to the break grow to 3:50.
30KM TO GO
2025-09-05T13:50:36.891Z
The slow down is allowing lots of dropped riders to rejoin the peloton.
2025-09-05T13:49:39.541Z
Red Bull have stopped pacing, and nobody’s taken over in their absence. The peloton is therefore just ambling along.
2025-09-05T13:47:20.579Z
Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe have taken over at the front of the peloton.
2025-09-05T13:46:23.709Z
Here was Jungels leading on the previous climb, forcing the selection we now have at the front of the race.
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2025-09-05T13:45:10.136Z
The dog ran towards Artz and Tiberi, but veered away before colliding with them.
2025-09-05T13:44:00.310Z
A sight as worrying as it was surreal has almost, but thankfully not, caused disaster in the race. A dog has just run across the road, attached to a chair by a leash. Assumedly it was tied to that chair to avoid running on the road, but escaped anyway.
2025-09-05T13:39:58.588Z
The peloton, meanwhile, are 3:37 behind the leaders.
40KM TO GO
2025-09-05T13:39:35.598Z
Tiberi has made his way up to Artz, and the pair are 20 seconds beind the leading 5.
2025-09-05T13:36:11.315Z
Bad news for Tiberi, who has had to stop for a mechanical. He drops out of the lead group as a result.
2025-09-05T13:35:09.284Z
It’s nearly mission accomplished for Pedersen today, with the intermediate sprint coming up after 15km of mostly descending and some flat.
2025-09-05T13:34:06.335Z
Pedersen has joined the leaders on the descent.
2025-09-05T13:31:56.825Z
Jungels, Tiberi, Garofoli and Cepeda were next over, in that order, with Pedersen arriving a few seconds later.
2025-09-05T13:30:50.412Z
Vinokourov leads the front group over the climb, to take 10 KOM points.
KOM – ALTO DE LA MOZQUETA
2025-09-05T13:28:38.034Z
Pedersen has dropped Artz, but is still a few seconds behind the leaders. For him, it’s all about keeping them close enough so he can join them on the descent, then take the intermediate sprint points at the foot of the upcoming climb.
2025-09-05T13:27:32.678Z
The Jungels-led lead group has seen their lead to the peloton decrease on this climb, to just under 3:30.
50KM TO GO
2025-09-05T13:26:40.855Z
Pedersen has only Huub Artz left on his wheel as he chases the leading five.
2025-09-05T13:25:58.954Z
Pedersen is just a few bike lengths back and trying to stay in contention, with just 1500m left to climb.
2025-09-05T13:25:23.787Z
Jungels has upped the pace, and only has four riders with him – Tiberi, Vinokourov, Cepeda and Garofoli.
2025-09-05T13:23:41.629Z
Bob Jungels has taken over from Cavagna at the front of the break.
2025-09-05T13:23:03.524Z
Yesterday’s runner-up Javier Romo is one of the latest wave of riders to be dropped from the ever-shrinking peloton.
2025-09-05T13:19:54.333Z
Rémi Cavagna is the man leading the break, surprisingly given this isn’t normally his kind of terrain.
2025-09-05T13:18:22.882Z
Q36.5 have just taken over at the front of the peloton. This feels like a major statement in favour of their leader Tom Pidcock.
2025-09-05T13:17:54.955Z
Behind, riders are also being dropped out the back of the peloton.
2025-09-05T13:17:24.879Z
Zukowsky also dropped, one of the 2 Q36.5 riders who got into the break as possible satellite riders for Pidcock.
2025-09-05T13:16:30.601Z
Foldager, Thierry and Bonneu have all been dropped from the break, and now Van Dijke is joining them.
2025-09-05T13:15:22.218Z
More riders are dropping out from the break, which is thinning on these steep slopes.
2025-09-05T13:13:43.904Z
Ethan Vernon is the first man to drop out of the break. That’s good news for Pedersen’s points jersey aspirations, as the Brit’s his rival for the points at the intermediate sprint coming up after this climb.
2025-09-05T13:11:45.245Z
The break’s started the climb, having increased their lead to 3:45 by the foot of it.
2025-09-05T13:08:09.975Z
After being in this holding pattern for so long, the race is about to begin in earnest. In just a few kilometres the break will start ascending the day’s first mountain, the category one Alto de la Mozqueta, which rises at 8.2% for 6.4km. That might pale in comparison to the Angliru, but is still steeper than most of what the riders have faced so far at this Vuelta.
2025-09-05T13:05:24.263Z
The gap continues to grow, up to 3:35. The pace in the peloton is high, with Visma not holding back, but higher still in the break, which is well-organised with multiple riders taking committed turns.
60KM TO GO
2025-09-05T13:04:29.116Z
The weather out there is sunny, which means the riders should be spared the rain and mist that have affected past ascents of the Angliru.
2025-09-05T13:03:02.341Z
Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe are keeping their GC men Jai Hindley and Giulio Pellizzari up towards the front of the peloton. They’re in 8th and 10th respectively onGC, and Hindley in particular has been looking better and better, and could be poised to leap up the rankings on the Angliru today.
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2025-09-05T12:58:14.740Z
The gap’s gone back uo again, to just over 3 minutes – the highest it’s been all day.
70KM TO GO
2025-09-05T12:56:43.209Z
Felix Gall is another to watch, as a pure climber who is in 5th on GC. He had to recover the other day having been dropped on the final climb, but if in top form, this is exactly the kind of mountain he can excel at.
2025-09-05T12:50:34.902Z
Everyone is intrigued as to how Tom Pidcock will ride today. The Brit has climbed better than ever in his career to date, peaking when he managed to even drop Jonas Vingegaard during the stage in the Basque Country two days ago. But he’s untested on a mountain like the Angliru – we’ll learn about Tom Pidcock as a bike rider today.
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2025-09-05T12:46:10.500Z
Having held steady for so long, the gap has come a little in the last few kilometres, to 2:30.
80KM TO GO
2025-09-05T12:45:10.220Z
How good a chance João Almeida has of winning the red jersey will feel much more apparent today. While the Portuguese rider has struggled to respond to the explosive accelerations from Vingegaard at this race, he might flourish more on a mountain like Angliru, where the ultra-steep gradients will neutralise the gains made from brief accelerations in favour of how well they climb for a long time.
2025-09-05T12:39:10.809Z
This is a big day for Visma-Lease a Bike and Jonas Vingegaard. The Dane leads the general classification, but not by much of a margin, with both João Almeida and Tom Pidcock still within a minute of his time. This feels like the day that he’ll want to take firm control of the race, and demotivate any of his rivals from believing they can challenge him.
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2025-09-05T12:33:03.041Z
A reminder that Ben O’Connor pulled out of the race earlier. You can read more about what happened here.
2024 Vuelta a España runner-up Ben O’Connor abandons race on road to Angliru
2025-09-05T12:30:01.944Z
It’s as you were out on the road, with the gap between the 25-man lead group and the peloton holding steady at just shy of 3 minutes.
90KM TO GO
2025-09-05T12:22:34.935Z
The riders have been racing for just over 2 hours, and have completed over half of this long stage already, flying at an average speed of over 50kmph. That’ll slow down once the climbing begins.
2025-09-05T12:17:58.593Z
The ongoing controversy surrounding Israel-Premier Tech’s involvement in the race in the wake of the pro-Palestine protesters continued today, as a senior Spanish politician called for the team’s removal from the race.
Spain’s Foreign Minister expresses support for removal of Israel-Premier Tech from Vuelta a España
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2025-09-05T12:09:26.319Z
The riders spent some of the day earlier by the Cantabrian Coast, getting a glimpse of the sea but have since moved inland as they approach the mountains.
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2025-09-05T12:05:28.350Z
The break are a little more than 50km away from the foot of the first climb, retaining their lead of about 2:45.
110KM TO GO
2025-09-05T12:00:17.328Z
Few if any riders know the Angliru better than Wout Poels, who will today race up the climb for the fifth time in his Vuelta career, and has a great record here too, only failing to make the top five on the stage in one of those past occasions. He recounted some of his memories to us earlier this week.
2025-09-05T11:54:07.787Z
No change in the gap between the peloton and the leaders, which is still at 2:45. Given the lack of quality climbers in this break, they will need much more than that to have a chance of winning the stage, you imagine.
120KM TO GO
2025-09-05T11:52:10.055Z
Fernando Barceló had a mechanical, but the pace is slow enough for him to easily return to the peloton.
2025-09-05T11:48:22.067Z
There’s plenty more reading on the Angliru to whet the appetite before we arrive at the climb today. Here’s Sepp Kuss memories of it, from when he just about held on to the red jersey in 2023.
2025-09-05T11:43:08.822Z
The break’s lead remains steady, at aout 2:40, with Visma-Lease a Bike keeping things controlled. You imagine their leader Jonas Vingegaard must fancy a stage win on the Angliru, to add to his growing Grand Tour collection.
2025-09-05T11:38:10.773Z
Today is all about the Angliru, one of the most famous climbs in cycling, and one that evokes fear and excitement in equal measure every time it features at the Vuelta. You can read an in-depth preview of the stage, and what it is that makes this mountain so special, here.
2025-09-05T11:30:24.388Z
There are a lot of KOM points on offer today – 40 in total, with 10 at the top of the first two climbs, and 20 at the top of the Angliru. This could therefore be a great chance for Joel Nicolau to challenge for the jersey, given that he’s made the break, and is 5th in the rankings already with 20 points, 26 behind leader Jay Vine.
2025-09-05T11:27:45.435Z
The gap between the break and the peloton remains about 2:45, with Visma-Lease a Bike leading the latter.
140KM TO GO
2025-09-05T11:25:30.241Z
Pedersen might not have a clear run at the intermediate sprint points today. His main rival for the green jersey, Ethan Vernon, is also in the break – though doesn’t have the climbing legs of Pedersen, so could well be dropped once the climbing starts.
2025-09-05T11:21:45.232Z
The indefatigable Mads Pedersen is, yet again, in the day’s break. He has one category one mountain to negotiate later before the day’s intermediate sprint, where he could extend his 61 point lead in the points classification. But you imagine he’s in the break as much for that as he is for his pure love of attacking racing.
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2025-09-05T11:19:15.933Z
Hamilton won’t be making the juncture – he’s dropped back into the peloton.
2025-09-05T11:17:34.070Z
Ivo Oliveira has managed at last to bridge up to the leaders, after a long chase, so we will have a UAE rider in the break after all. Oliveira dropped Hamilton earlier, who still remains in no-man’s land.
2025-09-05T11:16:29.683Z
2:56 is the gap between the leaders and the peloton, on this long flat section leading to the foot of the first of the day’s three big climbs, which is still only a little less than 100km away.
150KM TO GO
2025-09-05T11:14:40.492Z
After Tiberi, Jefferson Cepeda is one of the more acclaimed climbers in the break. The Ecuadorian was present in many of the breakaways at the Giro d’Italia earlier this season, though didn’t manage a stage win.
2025-09-05T11:11:00.299Z
There aren’t many riders in the break who have experience of having won Grand Tour stages in the past, but Bob Jungels is one such rider. The Luxembourg rider triumphed at the Tour de France three years ago, on a mountain stage, too (albeit not one as hard as this), but hasn’t shown that kind of form recently.
2025-09-05T11:05:26.748Z
Here are the 24 men in the breakaway.
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2025-09-05T10:59:52.925Z
Ben O’Connor’s withdrawal ends an impressive run of 10 finishes in his last 11 Grand Tour appearances, in which time he has finished 2nd overall once, fourth twice, and won four stages. By his high standards, this was a disappointing race for the Australian.
2025-09-05T10:56:20.994Z
In no-man’s land between the break and the peloton, Chris Hamilton and Ivo Oliveira still haven’t given up the ghost, but have 1:13 to make up if they’re to join up to the former.
2025-09-05T10:55:17.087Z
The break is 2:50 up on the peloton, who are happy to let them stay up the road for now.
170KM TO GO
2025-09-05T10:53:54.177Z
O’Connor joins Archie Ryan in leaving the race, after the young Irishman didn’t start the stage this morning, due to a muscular strain in his right glute.
2025-09-05T10:52:17.761Z
Ben O’Connor has just abandoned the race. In top form he’d be a contender for the stage on a mountain like the Angliru, but has been clearly struggling since crashing a few days ago, and will drop out of the race he finished second overall at last year.
2025-09-05T10:50:22.850Z
The make-up of the group will have been shaped by the terrain at this early phase of the stage, which is most flat and only a little undulating – in stark contrast to the gradients that await them at the end of the day.
2025-09-05T10:49:09.352Z
There are also no UAE riders in it, the team that has already won four of this year’s breakaway stages so far. Are the team at last changing tactics, and prioritising Almeida’s GC bid rather than another stage win?
2025-09-05T10:47:59.721Z
It might be a big break we have out front, but it is lacking in the kind of climbing specialists you’d imagine would be able to compete for a stage win on a climb as difficult as the Angliru. Only Tiberi’s name stands out as a real elite climber.
2025-09-05T10:45:46.700Z
There are four riders in between the lead group (which contains 24 riders) and the peloton – Chris Hamilton, Thomas Gruel, Ivo Oliveira and Jesus Herrada.
2025-09-05T10:44:27.127Z
Felix Gall is also back in the peloton.
2025-09-05T10:43:56.530Z
It appears we have our break of the day. Their lead’s grown to almost two minutes already, ahead of a peloton that’s sat up.
2025-09-05T10:41:22.853Z
This group is building their lead. It’s up to about 40 seconds over the peloton.
180KM TO GO
2025-09-05T10:40:20.601Z
It’s a large group, but no GC men have managed to sneak into it unnoticed. The highest placed rider on the overall rankings is Gianmarco Garofoli, who’s over half an hour down.
2025-09-05T10:37:19.538Z
A large group of about 25 has a small gap, featuring Antonio Tiberi and – guess who – Mads Pedersen.
2025-09-05T10:36:15.855Z
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2025-09-05T10:32:33.527Z
It’s been a chaotic start, and Felix Gall is in a group about 20 seconds off the back of the peloton.
2025-09-05T10:31:07.807Z
No break has formed yet, but attacks are firing off the front
2025-09-05T10:29:57.868Z
The racing has already begun and are out on the road, about 10km into one of the most important stages of this year’s race.
190KM TO GO
2025-08-11T17:26:49.225Z
Hello and welcome to stage 13 of the Vuelta a España!