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2025-09-06T13:19:31.318Z
That’s an astonishing comeback. Campanaerts and Leemreize have been able to make contact with the breakaway, following a chase that looked to be doomed. They take advantage of the drop in pace to bridge back to the group, a really remarkable effort on the part of the Belgian and the Dutchman.
2025-09-06T13:17:41.390Z
The first categorised climb arrives shortly, but it’s nothing compared to the two challenges that await on today’s stage.
2025-09-06T13:16:37.144Z
The gap begins to fall as the games begin in the break, with not everyone pulling their weight.
80km to go
2025-09-06T13:10:43.716Z
Campanaerts still hasn’t given up the ghost entirely – he’s 1:46 behind the lead group, riding with Gijs Leeimreize of Team Picnic-PostNL.
2025-09-06T13:09:18.412Z
Xabier Azparren (Q36.5 Pro Cycling) has finally made it across to the breakaway group, after an incredible fight. He will hope to be allowed to sit on for a while and recover after an immense effort.
The group are now 22-strong once again. The best represented team is Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale who have four cards to play within the group, and find themselves in a very strong position. In addition to Armirail, they have Jordan Labrosse, Léo Bisiaux and Johannes Staune-Mittet.
2025-09-06T13:03:35.526Z
With 88 kilometres to race, the gap continues to stretch out – it’s well over four minutes now, indicating it could be a good day for the breakaway.
2025-09-06T13:02:12.557Z
Today’s breakaway powers towards the first categorised climb of the day
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2025-09-06T12:59:39.843Z
The gap has extended to four minutes, as Campanaerts appears to concede his effort – he’ll likely slide back to the peloton now.
90km to go
2025-09-06T12:54:12.134Z
Campanaerts is finally delivered a bike from his team car and sets about trying to make up the deficit, he’s 1:40 behind the break now, truly trapped in a chasse patate – but if anyone can make it across in this kind of situation, it’s Campanaerts.
2025-09-06T12:50:06.868Z
Azparren continues to chase the lead group – he’s around 30 seconds behind them. Campanaerts is just over a minute behind the leaders, still waiting on his own bike.
2025-09-06T12:49:03.270Z
The gap to the break has stabilised at 3:30.
100km to go
2025-09-06T12:47:56.534Z
A nightmare for Campanaerts – he is struggling to make up the lost ground as he rides the neutral service bike – he needs his own replacement bike but his team car hasn’t yet made it up to him.
2025-09-06T12:43:21.938Z
The gap grows out over three minutes, as Campanaerts has to stop with a mechanical issue. He has to take service from the Shimano team.
2025-09-06T12:39:42.515Z
See above for the full list of riders in today’s sizeable breakaway. From the two top teams in the race, UAE boast two riders in the break – Marc Soler and Mikkel Bjerg – while Visma | Lease a Bike have a sole representative in Victor Campanaerts.
2025-09-06T12:37:50.474Z
With the breakaway established, the peloton begins to allow the gap to grow. It’s currently up to 1:30.
110km to go
2025-09-06T12:31:18.286Z
And it’s done. The peloton eases their foot off the gas and riders begin to take natural breaks as at the head of the race, a group numbering around 30 riders establishes itself as the day’s early break, after 22 kilometres of action.
2025-09-06T12:30:13.399Z
A chasing group of three – Asparren (Q36.5 Pro Cycling), Vansevenant (Soudal-QuickStep) and a rider from Team Picnic-PostNL – are trying to bridge to the lead group.
2025-09-06T12:28:50.238Z
A large group are around 10 seconds clear of the bunch. Could this be the day’s early breakaway?
2025-09-06T12:24:57.807Z
Bjerg attacks again and forces a split in the group, with around 15 riders clear of the remainder of the peloton.
2025-09-06T12:24:21.543Z
Victor Campanaerts catches the group and moves to the front – everything is back together again as the race heads through a town.
120km to go
2025-09-06T12:22:27.931Z
Wheel change for Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers). He’s back on his way.
2025-09-06T12:21:58.845Z
The chasing group swells to around 10 riders but they don’t have much room. Mikkel Bjerg is present for UAE Team Emirates and he drives the pace, gathering up Pickering and with UAE’s presence in the break, Visma lead the chase behind.
2025-09-06T12:19:28.865Z
Pickering catches and passes Rickaert to become the sole leader of the race, but attacks continue to pour forth in his wake, with the bunch in bits behind.
2025-09-06T12:17:00.761Z
Pickering continues to labour in between Rickaert and the rest of the bunch, as Buitrago drops back. A rider from EF is trying to bridge to the young Brit.
2025-09-06T12:14:17.338Z
Rickaert leads by 15 seconds currently as further attacks launch behind – but nothing sticks.
2025-09-06T12:10:41.642Z
With Rickaert still alone at the head of the read, the attacks continue behind, with the peloton stretched out into a long line and the bunch splits under the pressure as the road heads downhill.
2025-09-06T12:09:11.831Z
A large group pulls clear of the bunch – a Visma rider follows, whether to be a part of the break or simply to review the composition of the group is unclear.
130km to go
2025-09-06T12:06:55.664Z
Visma | Lease a Bike launch the next round of attacks.
2025-09-06T12:06:35.503Z
Rickaert continues to lead solo – he led stage 9 of the Tour de France alongside his teammate Mathieu van der Poel back in July, winning the combativity prize for the day for his efforts. He’ll hope for some company very soon otherwise it could be a long day out for the 31-year-old Belgian.
2025-09-06T12:03:12.487Z
We’re underway and the first attacker has launched – it’s Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Jonas Rickaert and he’s currently solo. Who will join him?
2025-09-06T11:59:02.501Z
Just over a kilometre remaining ahead of flag drop in this 14th stage of La Vuelta.
2025-09-06T11:52:02.487Z
Press release from Israel-Premier Tech regarding the change of jersey.
In the interest of prioritizing the safety of our riders and the entire peloton, in light of the dangerous nature of some protests at @lavuelta, Israel – Premier Tech has issued riders with team monogram-branded kit for the remainder of the race. The team name remains Israel –… pic.twitter.com/Dfw6FXegpMSeptember 6, 2025
2025-09-06T11:50:45.536Z
Protesters have disrupted the neutralised start of today’s race, amid news that the Israel-Premier Tech team ride today’s stage with rebranded jerseys, the Israel logo removed from the front of the jersey.
Protests disrupt race start
2025-09-06T11:48:23.185Z
News of one rider withdrawal to bring you – Sergio Higuita (XDS Astana) will not begin stage 14. The team’s update on Higuita is below.
🇪🇸 RACE: @lavuelta @HiguitSergio will not start Stage 14 due to fatigue following recent illness before La Vuelta.The team has decided to allow him more time to fully recover ahead of the season’s final races.#LaVuelta25 #XDSAstanaTeam 📷 @SprintCycling pic.twitter.com/TYKDmHWuncSeptember 6, 2025
2025-09-06T11:43:18.647Z
Today’s stage profile begins with some rolling terrain, ahead of three categorised climbs, the first of these arriving after 63 kilometres.
2025-09-06T11:37:08.514Z
The riders have rolled out and are covering the neutralised section ahead of flag drop.
Startline selfie 🤳😍Selfie del día 🤳🥹#LaVuelta25 pic.twitter.com/NFqEAgDYjJSeptember 6, 2025
2025-09-06T11:33:11.492Z
Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) maintains his iron grip on the green points jersey following another strong climbing performance on stage 13.
2025-09-06T11:31:18.871Z
The state of play ahead of today’s action is as follows.
Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) retains the red jersey as GC leader for the fourth consecutive day. He leads by 46 seconds, ahead of UAE Team Emirates’ João Almeida. Almeida took victory ahead of Vingegaard on yesterday’s stage, and will draw confidence from that ahead of another tough day in the mountains.
2025-09-06T11:20:52.945Z
Today’s stage begins in Avilés and travels 135.9 kilometres to La Farrapona for another summit finish at Lagos de Somiedo.
Despite being a relatively short stage, the peloton still have 3,805 metres of altitude gain to contend with, and there will be some tired legs among the bunch following yesterday’s brutal ascent of the Angliru.
2025-08-11T18:45:29.465Z
Good afternoon and welcome to live coverage of stage 14 of La Vuelta a España. Stay with us for updates throughout the afternoon of all the action from a second day in the mountains of Asturias.