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Official average speed for the first hour: 48.7km/h.
Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) and Harold Tejada (Astana-Qazaqstan) make it up to the break now to make it six. The small group from which they jumped has been swallowed up and the peloton is still close at hand…
We’ve done an hour now, and almost 50km on the clock. A flying start and it’s still not settled but it does look now like a breakaway could be properly forming.
They’re joined now by Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates), who may still have COVID-19, with more springing from behind.
A three-man move goes clear: Jhonatan Narváez (Ineos Grenadiers), Xandro Meurisse (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Marco Frigo (Israel-Premier Tech).
18 in the latest move but it’s going nowhere (on a train).
Yep it’s back to square one, as 12 more go after him and the whole thing comes back together.
Thibault Guernalec (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) is the latest to come through the queue for the queue, the lobby, the real queue, and into the bagging area… but will it crash on him?
A ticket to this breakaway as hard to find as Oasis right now.
It’s still raining attacks and it’s still all together.
All together again as we rattle along at over 50km/h. A start like this will make the Vuelta’s longest day feel a little less long.
Riley Sheehan (Israel-Premier Tech) kicks off the next wave of attacks.
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Dstny) goes solo for a little while but it’s all back together.
We’re off
One non-starter today and that’s Cofidis’ Ruben Fernandez. Easy to forget the Spaniard won the Tour de l’Avenir back in the day – he hasn’t quite had the career that most l’Avenir winners go on to enjoy.
Before we get going, now’s the time to catch up on yesterday’s action, and there was plenty of it. Stage 13 report and results here.
Here’s a closer look at the profile. There’s a long drag and a stiff hike to the cat-3 climb at the half-way point, ahead of the cat-1 test later on. It looks fairly…
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