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2026-03-29T11:01:19.047Z
Almeida has managed to get back on but he is not having a good race this year.
2026-03-29T11:00:57.511Z
1km from the top of the Alt del Castell de Montjuïc (2).
2026-03-29T11:00:39.638Z
Onto the climb for the second time.
2026-03-29T10:58:32.230Z
Almeida now a minute out of the back of the peloton.
2026-03-29T10:58:10.868Z
Intermediate sprint (Barcelona)
2026-03-29T10:57:17.068Z
Just a minute split the break and the peloton now. One hour ridden with the average speed still very high at 47kph!
2026-03-29T10:55:52.497Z
The riders are now descending to the final intermediate sprint.
2026-03-29T10:54:57.726Z
Some riders had to unclip on the first ascent and stop. That’ll be difficult to get going again.
2026-03-29T10:54:13.373Z
KOM (Alt del Castell de Montjuïc)
2026-03-29T10:51:56.103Z
João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) is already losing touch with the peloton.
2026-03-29T10:51:25.710Z
Maybe Evenepoel fancies an early move and gives a chance for him to take a win or for him to be a bridge for Lipowitz.
2026-03-29T10:49:10.563Z
1km from the top of the climb.
2026-03-29T10:48:50.852Z
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe now take over for Lipowitz.
2026-03-29T10:48:17.618Z
Visma-Lease a Bike take control of the peloton onto the first ascent of the Alt del Castell de Montjuïc. The gap is dropping rather quickly.
2026-03-29T10:46:13.623Z
NSN and Visma-Lease a Bike both lead the peloton as the break cross the finish line for the first time for the first of eight times. Gap at 1’35”.
2026-03-29T10:41:40.524Z
Just 6km to the top of the first ascent of the Alt del Castell de Montjuïc. The climb is taken on seven times and is 2.5km with an average 4.6% with a brutal maximum kick at 19%.
2026-03-29T10:40:09.151Z
60km to go
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2026-03-29T10:36:30.009Z
NSN and Bahrain Victorious having a bit of a go at each other in the bunch. Riders are all over the place and Nikias Arndt wasn’t happy with one of the NSN riders as they try to get into position.
2026-03-29T10:34:03.127Z
About 25 riders just off the back of the peloton due to the wind.
2026-03-29T10:33:44.533Z
The wind is causing the peloton to be buffeted around the road into Barcelona and the pace is picking up. The gap had gone over 2’00” but now the gap is slowly dropping again.
2026-03-29T10:29:10.111Z
Half an hour into the race, the break have 1’54” on the peloton led by Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe and Visma-Lease a Bike with the average speed sitting at 51.2kph. It is a rapid start!
2026-03-29T10:27:46.803Z
70km to go
The riders are now inside 20km to go to the Montjuïc circuit and the seven ascents of the Alt del Castell de Montjuïc.
2026-03-29T10:26:11.024Z
The gap has grown for the five leaders as they now have 1’25” on the peloton.
2026-03-29T10:25:12.028Z
Intermediate sprint (Castelldefels)
2026-03-29T10:18:57.360Z
There is 50″ splitting the break and the peloton now.
2026-03-29T10:18:32.918Z
The three chasers have been caught by the peloton. The riders are about to cross the line in Castelldefels for the second intermediate sprint of the day.
2026-03-29T10:16:40.931Z
Intermediate sprint (Viladecans)
2026-03-29T10:14:07.462Z
The riders have just stormed through the first intermediate sprint in Viladecans.
2026-03-29T10:13:32.734Z
The three chasers are about 8″ off the back of the leaders with the peloton still at just 15″.
2026-03-29T10:10:16.495Z
Three riders are trying to bridge to the leaders.
2026-03-29T10:07:20.906Z
The peloton are 15″ behind the five man break with just 5km to the first intermediate sprint of the day which takes place in Viladecans.
2026-03-29T10:06:38.680Z
Two groups come together!
2026-03-29T10:05:23.712Z
Lead group splits.
2026-03-29T10:00:26.949Z
Attack
2026-03-29T09:57:38.721Z
95.1km to go
2026-03-29T09:55:33.109Z
The neutral is meant to be only 1.1km long, but the official start has not been given.
2026-03-29T09:52:11.336Z
The neutral start is given. It is a very short neutral today.
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2026-03-29T09:42:20.230Z
Jerseys
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2026-03-29T09:39:18.180Z
One non-starter today is MIchael Leonard (EF Education-EasyPost). He joins Georg Steinhauser (EF Education-EasyPost), Sergio Chumil (Burgos-Burpellet-BH), Haoyo Su (XDS-Astana), Anton Kuzmin (XDS-Astana), Tao Geoghegen-Hart (Lidl-Trek) and Michel Hessmann (Movistar) who all DNFd yesterday.
2026-03-29T09:32:22.148Z
Sign on and rider presentation is well underway in Barcelona.
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2026-03-29T08:57:04.084Z
According to Evenepoel, he didn’t want to take risks. But the Olympic champion absolutely flew down the final descent yesterday of the Coll de Pradell that there were only six other riders with him…
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2026-03-29T08:42:49.252Z
First things first, lets take a moment to look back at yesterday’s stage… It was another rapid mountain stage with a huge fight for the breakaway early doors. Eventually, a really strong group got away with Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) and Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) being the main men for the KOM jersey after the stage.
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2026-03-29T08:38:53.188Z
Hola and welcome to the finale stage of this year’s Volta a Catalunya live here on Cyclingnews’ live report. I hope you’ve enjoyed the week’s racing and are looking forward to what is always an exciting finale around the climb of Montjuïc in Barcelona.
The neutral start is in 20 minutes.
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