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Actually, Saéz is just caught by the peloton. García chases alone.
4:20 between the break and peloton. Saéz and García are 2:50 down.
Orla Chennaoui of Eurosport reports an interview with Jumbo-Visma's head of performance Mathieu Heijboer after Tom Dumoulin's withdrawal.
"It makes this Vuelta, at the very end of a very compact season, without much chance for recovery, an endurance event in the fact that fatigue plays a big role. It all comes down to the mental resilience riders have to fight, even when in November, for a few seconds"October 28, 2020
Movistar take it up on the front of the peloton as they hit the first climb of the day, the second-category Puerto de la Rasa. It's 9.8km long at an average of 5.3 per cent.
60km to go
It's Saéz trying to launch García across the gap.
Hector Saéz and Jhojan García of Caja Rural-Seguros RGA have jumped away from the break. They've immediately taken a minute.
Mountain classification leader Guillaume Martin, who is aiming to follow in the footsteps of David Moncoutié (2008-11) and Nicolas Edet (2013), who all won the jersey for Cofidis.
"This polka-dot jersey is a Cofidis specialty. David Moncoutié won it several times, my teammate Nicolas Edet also got it, and last year it was another Frenchman, Geoffrey Bouchard. I’d like to follow their path. Do I have to chose [between a stage and the jersey]? I think it can come together.
"From tomorrow we have a couple of stages without much KOM points so I’ll do my best today. It starts on the flat, we’ll see what I can do after the efforts from the last days. And let’s not forget the main contenders for this jersey should be the GC guys."
A shot of Ineos leading the peloton.
Ineos have upped the pace a little as the gap has come down to 4:10. The riders are still heading uphill.
The break's gap holds at fivee minutes as Ineos continue to work.
77km to go
The break are climbing at the moment, but it's an unclassfied hill rather than a 'real' climb.
Another look at the final climb today, featuring two-time Vuelta runner-up Fernando Escartín.
⛰️🧐¿Quieres saber cómo es el final de hoy en el Alto de Moncalvillo?🔙@f_escartin y @kiko lo reconocieron con la ayuda de @colomacarlos. ¡Descúbrelo en el vídeo!Get to know today's uphill finish in #LaVuelta20! pic.twitter.com/dVuNMlIGYlOctober 28, 2020
From the breakaway riders, Cavagna and Madrazo both won stages last year. The Frenchman won stage 19 in Toledo after a fantastic solo ride from the break, while Madrazo led a Burgos-BH one-two on the summit finish of Javalambre.
Simon finished second on a stage to Tarazona – where the riders passed through on stage 4 – in 2015, while other four riders are making their Vuelta debut this year.
90km to go
Still around 30 kilometres until the start of the first climb of the day, the Puerto de la Rasa.
Ángel Madrazo, who is out in the break today:
"Yesterday was a very intense race from the start until the finish, well, the last 7 stages have been like that. For me it’s an incredible La Vuelta, we’re going after everything and the team is doing well, we managed to put Cabedo in the break yesterday. And today we’ll try something similar.
"I’m feeling good, but we haven’t been able to go for the breakaways. Now we’ll try to make it to the finish when we’re up there. It’s a nice stage, they told us the last climb is very hard and why not dream again like last year?"
Ineos and EF are at the front of the peloton at the moment with the British team leading the way.
95km to go
The break has passed the 100km to go mark. They're currently 4:45 up on the peloton.
Some Tour de France news – the 2021 route presentation has been postponed from Thursday to Sunday evening. Read the full story here.
We'll have a lowdown on the route rumours and likely stages coming up.
Here's a look at the breakaway.
116km to go
A bike change for Rui Costa in the break but he's back up and running just fine.
An average of 45.2kph in the first hour of racing.
Here's what EF's Hugh Carthy, who lies second overall, had to say before the start.
💬"Hoy es un final muy duro, habrá diferencias. Cada etapa es importante"🇬🇧 Hugh Carthy @EFprocycling defiende posición de podio en la general de #LaVuelta20 pic.twitter.com/pWEaZLSX4ZOctober 28, 2020
*Scheduled tweet*@remicav has attacked and is in the breakaway at #LaVuelta20.Photo: @GettySport pic.twitter.com/7JTJTfKE0kOctober 28, 2020
132km to go
Ineos Grenadiers drive the peloton on behalf of race leader Richard Carapaz.
Simon has made it across to the break now. He joins Madrazo, Dyball, Cavagna, Rui Costa, Dewulf and Stannard out front. Their advantage is now 3:20.
A lot of rolling and flat roads in these early parts of the stage as the riders leave Logroño heading west before turning back and passing the city again before heading south to the mountains – the Sierra de Moncalvillo, part of the Sistema Ibérico range.
138km to go
Philipsen and Van der Sande have been caught by the peloton while Julien Simon (Total Direct Energie) tries to make it across.
The gap is now up to one minute.
Rui Costa is the best-placed on GC of those attackers. He's 23:44 down in 33rd place.
Robert Stannard (Mitchelton-Scott), Stan Dewulf, Tosh van der Sande (Lotto Soudal), Benjamin Dyball (NTT Pro Cycling) and Angel Madrazo (Burgos-BH) are at the front of the race now.
A small group including the UAE Team Emirates duo of Rui Costa, Jasper Philipsen plus Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck-Quick Step) are chasing.
153km to go
More attacks at the front. Scotson was with Jesus Ezquerra (Burgos-BH) but left him behind.
Things are back together at the front now.
There have been attacks from the very start today. Miles Scotson (Groupama-FDJ) is attempting to get away from the peloton.
Today's final climb has never been featured in the Vuelta before. It did host a finish at the 1994 Vuelta a Rioja, though. There, a young José María Jiménez took an early victory, chasing down Alex Zülle before leaving the Swiss rider behind on the steep slopes.
The riders are in the neutralised zone at the moment.
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There are two other non-starters today. Kenny Elissonde (Trek-Segafredo) and Michal Golas (Ineos Grenadiers) join Dumoulin in leaving the race.
Pedro Delgado and Movistar women's rider Sheyla Gutierrez have previewed today's climb if you want a look at it before the riders race later today.
The big news from the race this morning is that Tom Dumoulin has abandoned due to fatigue. The Dutchman was lying over 42 minutes down on GC heading into the day.
It's another day for the GC riders today as the peloton tackles the Alto de Moncalvillo. The 8.3-kilometre long climb averages 9.2 per cent gradient but has even steeper stretches. It should be a good one!
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