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It’s a wide road and again it’s a climb that has steeper sections mixed with much flatter things The peloton has lost a few members but is mostly lined up for the time being

Here is the Alto de Elgeta It’s a cat-3 climb, 62 km long with an average gradient of 52%

Groupama-FDJ is now needed A reminder that they have Pinot but have declared that their leader is Gaudu

Smit only hangs out for a few seconds before being injured, and Jauregui is about to be caught too

The pace has picked up in the peloton as the teams look to scramble to position themselves before the penultimate climb They are digging this false apartment and Jauregui is losing ground, 22 seconds now

In Italy, Jan Tratnik won the stage, and Joao Almeida found a few more seconds on his GC rivals Our report page is here

Bol and Sutterlin return to the peloton, leaving Jauregui as the only escapee, with 40 seconds in hand on the peloton

And then there were three As Wellens did several kilometers ago, Cavagna decides to sit down and come back to the peloton

The road is flat for 10 km before we start the last two climbs, and we have an intermediate sprint coming up

These four drivers have only 35 seconds in hand now It’s been clear for a while but the winner of the stage will come from the peloton

And now Cavagna and Jauregui come back to make four more Jauregui is not very happy and asks Sutterlin what he was playing

The runners are heading under the 15km to go banner We have 43 left, don’t worry, but we are on a mini loop and descend from the Alto de Elgeta, which they will approach on the other side for our next ascent This is the part of the route that is red and blue, so we are effectively doing the same descent that will take us from the top of Elgeta to the foot of Arrate in a short time

Meanwhile Jauregui, Bol and Sutterlin returned to Cavagna, leaving us with four in front with a one minute lead over the peloton.

Wellens sat down and came back into the peloton The gap was still slim and he is reserving for another day

Cavagna quickly finds 15 seconds as he descends now The road will restart briefly before the correct descent

Jauregui is still a ball of energy, making ostentatious accelerations out of the saddle as Wellens and others casually roll Jauregui wants more momentum but he doesn’t understand

The five escapees look at each other as the road continues to climb past the KOM point They’ve never had much ground and their advantage is below a minute now It’s time to really move forward

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The break near the top of the climb and once again it’s Jauregui who leaves for the points Bol is interested again but has no response to Jauregui’s stinging acceleration

We didn’t see anything from Groupama-FDJ today, apart from Anthony Roux who asked an AG2R pilot to help him take off his jacket, but the French team is there with Thibaut Pinot However, 30-year-old says his back is still not 100% after the crash that ruined their Tour de France, and David Gaudu may well be their leader Reflections of the two, from their pre-race conference, in the link below

It’s a dark uphill trail, on a wide highway with metal barriers on either side

The rain has subsided now and many riders are removing their capes and vests as we go back up and things start to heat up

The Alto de Kampazar is another Category 3 climb but it’s a bit more difficult, measuring 67km and 41% The five breakaway riders have hit it now

Cavagna attacks the break Or does he The Frenchman opens a breach but it looks like an accident as he shakes his legs It’s a quick race to the second climb, the Alto de Kampazar

Crash We mentioned that the descent was treacherous, and we have two riders who slipped in a right turn This is Kevin Inkelaar (Bahrain McLaren) and Georg Zimmerman (CCC) They are both back on their path

We have a descent now and it looks treacherous The roads are slippery with some recent rains and the wind is blowing brown leaves on the tarmac It doesn’t look like the Vuelta

The breakaway reaches the top of Puerto de Udana, where there is a point (3-2-1) for the top three to the top Jauregui hits and comes in first, followed by Bol Sutterlin sort of trying, while the other two are not disturbed

Along with Jumbo-Visma, Ineos Grenadiers also has a few big names in Chris Froome and Richard Carapaz The Ecuadorian should lead, given Froome’s long comeback after injury It’s not clear what to expect from the winner of the Vuelta 2011 and 2017, as he says himself

Two retirements to report Mathias Frank (AG2R) and Ilan van Wilder (Sunweb) both had to get off their bikes I don’t know why, for the moment

The Puerto de Urdana is 6 km long with a modest average slope of 23% but there are some flatter sections A feeding area has been positioned right next to the foot of it, so that the runners receive wet weather supplies and equipment

Martínez is now back in the peloton as we approach the first ascent of the day

The pace of the peloton is still strong The gap compared to the break is reduced to 1h30 Martínez is still back in the cars

And now finally, as the marshals wave him away from the wake of the EF car, Martínez finds teammates waiting for him Logan Owen and Julius van den Berg are there to help him up

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EF also has Woods, who could be a candidate for the GC, and Hugh Carthy, but losing Martínez – either from the GC photo or from the race – would be a blow, and a blow to the Colombian him. – even, whose Tour de France was hampered by an early crash

Martínez is back on his bike He gets a push, makes faces and starts over His teammates have since left him, so he will have to get back through the cars

It doesn’t look good for the Dauphiné champion and Tour de France stage winner He sits on a wall by the side of the road, grimacing as a doctor examines his foot

You can read what Valverde had to say before the race, with Mas and a potential third leader, Marc Soler, in the following article

Movistar still plays an important role in pulling the peloton The Spanish team has had a terrible season, with only one win so far, and they really need a performance in this Vuelta, which is more important for them than for anyone else since this is their «  home  » Grand Tour Enric Mas, who actually had a good Tour at the end and was fifth, leads the line alongside Valverde, who simply can never be written off at the Vuelta – he won it once and finished seven times on the podium, including last year

🎥 He has run a total of 10 @ lavuelta as a pilot and knows the Basque roads inside out Listen to what the young Trek-Segafredo scout @Markelirizar had to say before today’s # LaVuelta20 stage 1 , which takes place at his home routes👇 picTwittercom / BeDuIx0bfv20 October 2020

We are about to hit the long uphill trail that takes us to the first categorized climb of the day, the cat-3 Puerto de Udana

Alasdair recently arrived at the press room on arrival and has this dispatch for us

« FWIW they go up on the ‘easy’ side, no bad steep start at the bottom as was the case at Pais Vasco Large well groomed, the hardest at the bottom, and today following the ban tifosi, not a fan in sight, just three ice cream vans – possibly planning to sell their wares to the rare breed of goat, the Azpi Gorri or Shaggy Basque Goat, which has one of its strongholds on the ‘Arrate « 

The pace has been increased in the peloton It is worth mentioning that there is enough wind there – « windy bonkers », according to my colleague Alasdair Fotheringham At the moment they are heading south away from the coast, and it’s a head wind that comes slightly from the left It will be more of a tail wind on the final, even if the last climb is mostly wooded and therefore protected from the wind

We have a big interview with the Canadian coming later to CN, so hopefully we get to the bottom of it

By the way, we also have live coverage from today’s Giro stage, which is happening right now Open it in a new tab and everyone’s happy

Our top story today comes from the Giro d’Italia, which now looks set to travel to Milan after just two COVID positive tests on the second day of rest Not good, but much better than the there were fears after a team claimed the bubble was ‘clearly compromised’ Fernando Gaviria was one of two bright spots, meaning the UAE team’s sprinter caught it for the second time after spending a month in hospital with the virus in March

3:50 is the gap after 32km Jumbo-Visma doesn’t seem ready to give them much rope There isn’t much respite for the GC contenders during this Giro and we are heading for a showdown immediate here on opening day

Rings interrupts him and returns to the peloton Not the best start from Caja Rural This leaves us with five riders in the breakaway A reminder of their names:

While on the topic, we spoke to Dumoulin yesterday to find out what his ambitions are, what his form looks like and how things will work with Roglic

Jumbo-Visma came out on top, declaring his intentions and suggesting that they will control this race like they did the Tour de France After all, they have two of the big pre-race favorites, Primoz Roglic and Tom Dumoulin, plus what is comfortably the strongest team in the race Sepp Kuss, George Bennett and Robert Gesink are also here, while Lennard Hofstede, Paul Martens and Jonas Vingegaard are the only ones who haven’t taken the Tour

The peloton is now more than three minutes behind after 18 km Aritz Bagues is the rider of Caja Rural in no man’s land, and it doesn’t look like the break wants to wait for him

Wellens reacts again and passes himself off, with Jetse Bol from the aforementioned Burgos-BH team We have an intruder from Caja Rural but the peloton seems to be sitting down now

Wellens is brought back and now Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck-QuickStep) and Quentin Jauregui (AG2R La Mondiale) are on the move The French is joined by Jasha Sütterlin (Team Sunweb)

Tim Wellens goes on the attack The Lotto Soudal rider made the Tour of Flanders on Sunday and only arrived in Spain last night

The Spanish second division team Burgos-BH are expected to participate in many breakaways in this Vuelta Leur not only on Spanish soil, but much of the race takes place near Burgos in north-central Italy. ‘Spain Either way, a foursome move triggered by one of their purple jerseys is canceled

After a slightly extended neutral start, the flag was waved and now the first attacks are coming

We have a deep field on this Vuelta, filled with climbers and second changers from the Tour de France We have selected 10 of the most important / interesting names, which you can find at the link below We also have the full start list for you, so you can take a look and tell us who should have done the 10th

A little more on the stage, before we start It’s a brutal opening week and we are climbing from this opening stage The start is flat but the final is anything but, and we have two steep climbs in the Last 25 kilometers You may remember the final ascent of Arrate from the Tour du Pays Basque, or the Vuelta 2012, where Valverde won in a brilliant edition lit by Contador, Rodríguez and Froome It is 5 km long , is densely forested and averages around 9% in its toughest mid section The finish line is actually positioned 25km past the summit, but the last mile is a quick descent so it’s not technically an arrival at the top, but not far

And here is the Start-Up Nation of Israel team in facial recognition Dan Martin leads them into the cabin, and there is a feeling of tension in the air, like when you are at the automatic passport doors and you just know that won’t let you go, and everybody’s looking at you, and you convince yourself you’ve stolen somebody’s identity and you’re not really you just me? As you were Anyway, Omer Goldstein is next and ruffles her hair like the machine is so good she will notice her bangs are just a few millimeters away today The others pass by and their faces light up on the screen behind and I have to say this thing is pushing me

📸😃 Los corredores del @YallaIsraelSUN estrenan el reconocimiento facial en este primer control de firmas de # LaVuelta20 📸😃 @YallaIsraelSUN runners on the podium signing and facial recognition before stage 1! @Telefonica @TIS_corp picTwittercom / 1mUtame9td20 October 2020

We are in Irun, in the Basque Country, and we are just over 20 minutes from the start of the stage The riders are currently committing to the stage Well, I say sign on In a new anti -COVID, the Vuelta ditched the traditional pen / paper method and introduced facial recognition technology, which is vaguely terrifying

First up, here is our big look at Alasdair Fotheringham’s race, which has covered countless Vueltas now It sets the background for this race, which begins as the coronavirus situation in Spain becomes more and more more alarming day by day, and looks into a route and area that shouldn’t be lacking in IF entertainment (caps to indicate big if) the race goes on all

Buenos días, and welcome to the Vuelta a España We are still digesting the Tour of Flanders, the last week of the Giro d’Italia has only just begun, and yet here we are, about to embark on a Grand Tour of 18 stages that will take us to November La Vuelta is a wild race at the best of times, so God knows what it’s going to be like under these unprecedented circumstances Let’s get into it

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