2025-09-05T13:04:29.116Z<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
2025-09-05T13:03:02.341Z<\/p>\n
Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe are keeping their GC men Jai Hindley and Giulio Pellizzari up towards the front of the peloton. They\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n
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2025-09-05T12:58:14.740Z<\/p>\n
The gap’s gone back uo again, to just over 3 minutes – the highest it’s been all day.<\/p>\n
70KM TO GO<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:56:43.209Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:50:34.902Z<\/p>\n 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\u2019s untested on a mountain like the Angliru – we\u2019ll learn about Tom Pidcock as a bike rider today.<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:46:10.500Z<\/p>\n Having held steady for so long, the gap has come a little in the last few kilometres, to 2:30.<\/p>\n 80KM TO GO<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:45:10.220Z<\/p>\n How good a chance Jo\u00e3o 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.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:39:10.809Z<\/p>\n 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 Jo\u00e3o Almeida and Tom Pidcock still within a minute of his time. This feels like the day that he\u2019ll want to take firm control of the race, and demotivate any of his rivals from believing they can challenge him.<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:33:03.041Z<\/p>\n A reminder that Ben O\u2019Connor pulled out of the race earlier. You can read more about what happened here.<\/p>\n 2024 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a runner-up Ben O’Connor abandons race on road to Angliru<\/a><\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:30:01.944Z<\/p>\n It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 90KM TO GO<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:22:34.935Z<\/p>\n 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\u2019ll slow down once the climbing begins.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:17:58.593Z<\/p>\n The ongoing controversy surrounding Israel-Premier Tech\u2019s involvement in the race in the wake of the pro-Palestine protesters continued today, as a senior Spanish politician called for the team\u2019s removal from the race.<\/p>\n Spain’s Foreign Minister expresses support for removal of Israel-Premier Tech from Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a><\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:09:26.319Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:05:28.350Z<\/p>\n The break are a little more than 50km away from the foot of the first climb, retaining their lead of about 2:45.<\/p>\n 110KM TO GO<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T12:00:17.328Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n ‘I looked to the left, Bradley Wiggins, then to my right, Froomey’ \u2013 Mr Angliru Wout Poels reminisces on the hellish climb as it returns to Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a <\/a><\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:54:07.787Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 120KM TO GO<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:52:10.055Z<\/p>\n Fernando Barcel\u00f3 had a mechanical, but the pace is slow enough for him to easily return to the peloton.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:48:22.067Z<\/p>\n There\u2019s plenty more reading on the Angliru to whet the appetite before we arrive at the climb today. Here\u2019s Sepp Kuss memories of it, from when he just about held on to the red jersey in 2023.<\/p>\n ‘It’s the kind of climb you live for’ – 2023 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a winner Sepp Kuss relishing return to Angliru<\/a><\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:43:08.822Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:38:10.773Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a 2025 stage 13 preview – How hard will Jonas Vingegaard strike on the crunch ascent of the Angliru?<\/a><\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:30:24.388Z<\/p>\n 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\u2019s made the break, and is 5th in the rankings already with 20 points, 26 behind leader Jay Vine.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:27:45.435Z<\/p>\n The gap between the break and the peloton remains about 2:45, with Visma-Lease a Bike leading the latter.<\/p>\n 140KM TO GO<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:25:30.241Z<\/p>\n 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\u2019t have the climbing legs of Pedersen, so could well be dropped once the climbing starts.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:21:45.232Z<\/p>\n The indefatigable Mads Pedersen is, yet again, in the day\u2019s break. He has one category one mountain to negotiate later before the day\u2019s intermediate sprint, where he could extend his 61 point lead in the points classification. But you imagine he\u2019s in the break as much for that as he is for his pure love of attacking racing.<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:19:15.933Z<\/p>\n Hamilton won\u2019t be making the juncture – he\u2019s dropped back into the peloton.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:17:34.070Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:16:29.683Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 150KM TO GO<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:14:40.492Z<\/p>\n 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\u2019Italia earlier this season, though didn\u2019t manage a stage win.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:11:00.299Z<\/p>\n There aren\u2019t 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\u2019t shown that kind of form recently.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T11:05:26.748Z<\/p>\n Here are the 24 men in the breakaway.<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:59:52.925Z<\/p>\n Ben O\u2019Connor\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:56:20.994Z<\/p>\n In no-man\u2019s land between the break and the peloton, Chris Hamilton and Ivo Oliveira still haven\u2019t given up the ghost, but have 1:13 to make up if they\u2019re to join up to the former.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:55:17.087Z<\/p>\n The break is 2:50 up on the peloton, who are happy to let them stay up the road for now.<\/p>\n 170KM TO GO<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:53:54.177Z<\/p>\n O\u2019Connor joins Archie Ryan in leaving the race, after the young Irishman didn\u2019t start the stage this morning, due to a muscular strain in his right glute.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:52:17.761Z<\/p>\n Ben O\u2019Connor has just abandoned the race. In top form he\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:50:22.850Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:49:09.352Z<\/p>\n There are also no UAE riders in it, the team that has already won four of this year\u2019s breakaway stages so far. Are the team at last changing tactics, and prioritising Almeida\u2019s GC bid rather than another stage win?<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:47:59.721Z<\/p>\n It might be a big break we have out front, but it is lacking in the kind of climbing specialists you\u2019d imagine would be able to compete for a stage win on a climb as difficult as the Angliru. Only Tiberi\u2019s name stands out as a real elite climber.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:45:46.700Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:44:27.127Z<\/p>\n Felix Gall is also back in the peloton.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:43:56.530Z<\/p>\n It appears we have our break of the day. Their lead\u2019s grown to almost two minutes already, ahead of a peloton that\u2019s sat up.<\/p>\n 2025-09-05T10:41:22.853Z<\/p>\n This group is building their lead. It\u2019s up to about 40 seconds over the peloton.<\/p>\n![\"L'ANGLIRU,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RnPieAr63FiLg79nAAjA9j.jpg\")
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