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General classification
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 13 of the Vuelta a España!
A look at today's stage map.
Under an hour to go until the stage 13 start in Formigal.
Yesterday brought a sprint stage as Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates) outpaced Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Decuninck) to win in Zaragoza.
It was a quiet day at the Vuelta save for the final sprint. However, Primož Roglič did snatch back four seconds on Remco Evenepoel at the late intermediate sprint.
We also have a Vuelta tech gallery for you featuring all the hacks and innovations on show at the race as well as a brand-new Bianchi.
Under 30 minutes to go until the stage 13 start now.
Robbe Ghys and Alan Jousseaume are out of the race this morning. Check out the full list of Vuelta a España abandons here.
Jumbo-Visma warming up on the rollers ahead of the stage start today...
10 minutes to the start!
There'll be a 4.4km, 5.4 climb of the Puerto de Portalet to start the stage after the neutral zone.
The riders now waiting to roll out to start the stage.
And we're off. The start of the 1km neutral zone.
Orluis Aular (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) is the third rider who didn't make the start today along with Jousseaume and Ghys. 157 riders start stage 13.
134km to go
Climbing from the start.
Attacks from Arkéa-Samsic to start the day.
Elie Gesbert leading the attacks.
He's out front solo at the moment with a small gap.
More attacks up front as the riders near the top of the climb.
Gesbert caught before the top.
Romain Bardet (DSM-FIrmenich) led the way over the top and grabbed three KOM points.
124km to go
The Frenchman is sitting up now, however. All back together.
118km to go
Jonas Vingegaard heads to his car with a mechanical issue before making his way back to the peloton.
111km to go
More riders attack from the peloton.
Jonathan Castroviejo (Ineos Grenadiers) and Edward Theuns (Lidl-Trek) join Sepulveda out front.
Still 5km to go on the way down.
The riders are at the bottom of the descent now and they'll soon be starting the Aubisque.
102km to go
Theuns, Sepulveda, and Castroviejo now have Edward Planckaert (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost), and Imanol Erviti (Movistar) with them.
The leaders start the Aubisque.
Only a small gap of a few seconds back to the peloton.
100km to go
More riders try to attack.
Nobody getting clear.
Thomas and Landa towards the front.
96km to go
Riders already dropping off the back, of course.
Thomas still very active at the front as numerous riders try to go clear.
Still no breakaway almost halfway up the Aubisque.
Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Max Poole (DSM-Firmenich) and Pelayo Sánchez (Burgos-BH) are on the attack now.
More riders go across. Reports that former race leader Lenny Martinez is in trouble at the back of the peloton. He's still fifth overall.
João Almeida also at the rear of the peloton...
93km to go
Thomas has made the front group but the peloton is coming back.
Jumbo-Visma leading the peloton.
Almeida is struggling at the rear of the peloton. Dropping then coming back.
Andreas Kron (Lotto-Dstny) pushes on at the front ahead of the large breakaway group.
90km to go
A couple of riders trying to get across to Kron now.
Reports coming through that Remco Evenepoel has been dropped along with João Almeida! Wow...
Live footage shows the Soudal-QuickStep team working on the front of a small group with Evenepoel and Almeida.
Jumbo-Visma leading the peloton.
This is very unexpected. A nightmare scenario for the Belgian and, honestly, for the race as a whole – he's the main challenger to a very strong Jumbo-Visma leadership trio.
Evenepoel is going backwards in the chase group now.
87.5km to go
He's a minute behind the peloton and 1:20 down on new solo leader Michael Storer (Groupama-FDJ).
This is game over for Evenepoel.
85km to go
He's 35 seconds up on the peloton, 1:55 up on Evenepoel's group.
Almeida is between the peloton and Evenepoel, though closer to the former.
If this is game over for Evenepoel and Almeida – and assuming that Soler and Martinez won't hold their current positions – then Ayuso and Mas figure to be the only GC men left to take the fight to the Jumbo-Visma trio. The pair lie at 2:25 and 2:50 down on race leader Kuss.
80km to go
More riders with Storer now – Kron is there with Cristian Rodríguez (Arkéa-Samsic) and Kenny Elissonde (Lidl-Trek).
The peloton at 30 seconds behind the break. Almeida a minute down. Evenepoel still at two minutes.
77km to go
The breakaway has now been caught.
70km to go
Sepp Kuss and Jonas Vingegaard have jumped along with Bahrain Victorious duo Mikel Landa and Damiano Caruso!
A small gap for the four attackers.
The riders now approaching the foot of the Spandelles.
63km to go
Romain Bardet (DSM-Firmenich) chases the leaders.
The Col de Spandelles – 10.3km at 8.3%.
Riders drop from the peloton, including Geraint Thomas.
61km to go
Mikel Landa is quickly back on the attack.
Landa is followed by Kuss, Mas, Soler, Vingegaard.
And now it comes together again.
Now Vingegaard goes off the front with Landa.
UAE Team Emirates leading the chase.
More riders come across to Vingegaard and Landa.
Evenepoel remains at around two minutes down.
The front group now – Sepp Kuss, Primož Roglič, Jonas Vingegaard, Wilco Kelderman, Robert Gesink (Jumbo-Visma); Juan Ayuso, Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates); Mikel Landa, Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious); Aleksandr Vlasov, Cian Uijtdebroeks, Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe); Enric Mas, Einer Rubio (Movistar); Lenny Martinez, Michael Storer (Groupama-FDJ); Max Poole (DSM-Firmenich); Steff Cras (TotalEnergies), David de la Cruz (Astana Qazaqstan); Juan Pedro Lopez (Lidl-Trek); Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost)
58km to go
Jumbo-Visma setting the pace on the front.
More riders getting back in.
Martinez dropping from the peloton now.
3km to the top now and Jumbo-Visma line up with five at the front.
Evenepoel at 2:40 down now. Almeida at 1:30.
The Vuelta organisation now stating that Evenepoel is actually 5:30 down!
Meanwhile, Michael Storer attacks the peloton 1.5km from the top.
He's fourth in the mountain classification with 15 points gained on the Aubisque. If he leads over the Spandelles than he'll leapfrog Herrada to take the KOM lead.
53km to go
22 seconds from Storer to the rest as he heads over the top.
There were bonus seconds on offer at the top of the climb. Storer took six while a Jumbo-Visma rider was second to take four.
48km to go
All back together up front now.
Almeida now at two minutes. Evenepoel at 7:20.
Vingegaard took the four bonus seconds at the top of the Spandelles, by the way. Ayuso grabbed two for third place.
40km to go
The riders now in the valley road ahead of the final climb.
Lenny Martinez gets back in.
33km to go
Jumbo-Visma continue in the lead of the peloton.
28km to go
A look at the Tourmalet – 18.9km at 7.4%.
26km to go
We haven't had any time checks on Almeida or Evenepoel recently but they're well out of it.
20km to go
Heading through the town of Luz-Saint-Sauveur now.
Onto the climb now and Jumbo-Visma continue to lead.
17km to go
Martinez drops and Storer waits for him.
Almeida is at 3:15 down, meanwhile.
Gesink, Kelderman, Vingegaard at the front of the group.
15km to go
14km to go
The group lined out behind them.
Kelderman leading as Lopez battles to hang on at the rear.
Cras, Carthy, and De la Cruz also towards the back.
The big news of the day...
13km to go
De la Cruz the next to drop.
Lopez also struggling.
12km to go
Lopez still there.
Buchmann has gone, though.
The group now...
Carthy now losing the wheel as Lopez pushes past him to get back on.
11km to go
Lopez rides past Buitrago to stick in there.
A very resilient ride from the Spaniard so far. He's been on the back for the whole start of the climb and has seen multiple riders drop past him.
He's hanging a few metres off the rear now.
Vlasov, Cras, Soler just ahead of Lopez in the line.
Kelderman continues to make the pace. It will be interesting to see what Jumbo-Visma do when he pulls off.
10km to go
But now he's losing ground...
He's gone. Now it's Vlasov and Cras at the back.
Great ride from Cras so far. He and Uijtdebroeks are 15th and 14th overall. The other men in this group fill out the top 11 overall.
Though of course, Evenepoel, Almeida, and Martinez are missing from this group from the top 11 on GC.
9km to go
A shot of Evenepoel and his Soudal-QuickStep teammates well off the back during today's stage.
Kelderman, Vingegaard, Kuss, Mas, Landa, Uijtdebroeks, Roglič, Soler, Cras, Vlasov lined up in the group in that order.
Nobody showing any major signs of struggling yet.
We've seen Carthy, Lopez, Buitrago, De la Cruz, Buchmann, Storer, Martinez, Gesink all go out the rear so far.
8km to go
He goes again!
Mas leads the chase.
Vlasov, Cras and Soler out the rear.
Ayuso, Roglič, Kuss, Uijtdebroeks behind Vingegaard and Mas.
7km to go
Mas back with Ayuso, Kuss, Roglič, Landa, Uijtdebroeks in the chase.
20 seconds from Vingegaard to the chase.
Leader: Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)
Vingegaard is only gaining time here as Mas leads the chase along with Uijtdebroeks and Ayuso.
6km to go
Landa doing no work after getting back on. The two Jumbo-Visma men won't work against Vingegaard, obviously.
Photos from the race are coming in slow today. Just imagine fewer of these riders racing up a different mountain in a smaller group...
Mas attacks now. Kuss tracks him.
Landa is blown off the back.
Ayuso leads Roglič and Uijtdebroeks behind Mas and Kuss.
5km to go
Ayuso leading his three-man group across to Mas and Kuss.
4km to go
Kuss attacks Mas!
Ayuso, Roglič, Uijtdebroeks still chasing Kuss and Mas.
Now Kuss and Mas are back with Ayuso, Roglič, Uijtdebroeks.
40 seconds for Vingegaard now.
Mas, Uijtdebroeks, Ayuso working in the chase.
3km to go
Roglič and Kuss sat on the back of the five-man group.
2.5km to go
These are the top GC contenders, while Uijtdebroeks is in 14th place at 5:16 down. A great ride from the Belgian today.
Vingegaard powering on as the group behind starts and stops.
2km to go
Now a minute up to Vingegaard.
1.5km to go
Landa coming back at the rear of the group.
Vingegaard has this in the bag now.
Ayuso and Roglič get across to Uijtdebroeks.
Mas and Kuss a few metres back.
Kuss springs past Mas and attacks after being held up by a fan in the road!
1km to go
Roglič just sitting at the front of the group but not pushing on.
Now Roglič goes!
Kuss passes the 1km mark.
Will this be a Jumbo-Visma 1-2-3?
Ayuso, Mas and Uijtdebroeks get back to Roglič.
Kuss maybe 5 seconds up the road.
Meanwhile Vingegaard rides into the final 500 metres.
Kuss looks good for second.
Uijtdebroeks leads the chase.
No time gap to Vingegaard at the moment. It should be around a minute.
250 metres for the Dane.
Finish
Just under four hours of racing on a brutal stage.
Now the stopwatch starts.
Sepp Kuss comes in for second place now.
Kuss crosses the line at around 30 seconds down.
Roglič makes it a 1-2-3 just a few seconds later.
Ayuso leads Uijtdebroeks and Mas home at 38 seconds down.
Total domination from Jumbo-Visma.
Vlasov crosses the line at 2:15 down.
Soler in at just over three minutes down.
Landa at 1:15 in seventh, Vlasov at 2:12 in eighth, Cras at 2:32 in ninth, Soler at 3:08 in 10th.
Vingegaard on the way to victory on the Tourmalet.
More riders filter in... Carthy in 11th at 4:42, Lopez in 14th at 5:29, Martinez in 18th at 8:25...
The new GC standings see Kuss lead Roglič by 1:37 while Vinegegaard is third at 1:44.
Here's what Jonas Vingegaard had to say after his stage win...
Kuss crossing the line with Roglič charging in for third place behind him.
Evenepoel's group now riding up the top of the climb with the timer passing the 19-minute mark.
Ayuso leads home Uijtdebroeks and Mas.
Evenepoel's group inside the final kilometre now at 24 minutes and counting.
Almeida finished in 16th at 6:47.
A shot of Remco Evenepoel crossing the line, his hopes of retaining the Vuelta a España over.
A shot of race leader Kuss on the attack towards the top of the Tourmalet. He finished second on the day and heads up a Jumbo-Visma GC 1-2-3.
Jonas Vingegaard celebrates his stage victory on the podium atop the Tourmalet.
That's all from our live coverage of today's stage 13. It's been a momentous day at the Vuelta a España! Watch out for news from the race rolling in through the evening.
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