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21.5km to go

Osorio puts in one final sprint to stay out in front a little longer than Bagues and take the combativity award. 

Bagues and Osorio are on the brink of being caught with 22km to go.

This is a proper injection of pace as the riders fight for position once more. The two leaders have just 15 seconds now.

And now the gap starts to go back the other way as the pace lifts in the peloton under the 25km to go banner. 

28.5km to go

The surge in pace up front, combined with an easing in the peloton - where all the teams seem happy with the positions they've taken up - sees the gap rise to 45 seconds once more. 

With the gap down to 25 seconds, Bagues senses the need to really press on. Osorio is out of the saddle sprinting, fighting to get back to the wheel. 

Jumbo have hit the front now, looking to keep Roglic out of trouble.

The bunch cross the line just 50 seconds down on the two leaders.

The peloton are getting a preview now of the run-in to the sprint. There's a tight hairpin turn with a kilometre or so to go, so there'll be a big fight into that, but otherwise it's a relatively uncomplicated sprint, even if the road does get fairly narrow. 

35.4km to go

Bagues and Osorio come into the home straight and cross the finish line for the first time.

The pace has increased in the bunch now. We're still 37km out but teams are already starting to get organised.

Sam Bennett spoke at the start this morning

"Today's sprint is a little bit different [to stage 4]. With corners it's sometimes easier to control but today, ok it's a long corner, but it's more open, more straight, and it gives guys opportunities to come from behind so it can be a bit more dangerous."

The gap comes down to below the two-minute mark now, with 44km to go. 

Into the final 50km and Bagues and Osorio hit some slightly more draggy terrain as we near our finish town of Aguilar de Campoo. The riders will then head out to do a finishing circuit of 35km before the expected sprint finish.

It's a quiet day in the cycling world but it shouldn't have been. Today was meant to be the presentation of the 2021 Tour de France route in Paris but the coronavirus situation there, with the country heading back into lockdown, has seen it postponed and reduced to a TV bulletin on Sunday evening. Anyway, lots of potential details of the route are already swirling around and we've rounded them all up in the following piece. 

Tour de France 2021 route: All the rumours ahead of the big reveal

The aforementioned Saez helmet

It's Dylan van Baarle for Ineos and the Dutchman bags the remaining point to take his total to the race to... 3. What he was doing there was protecting the final bonus second from Carapaz's rivals, although there was no sign of Roglic showing any interest there. 

The peloton comes to the sprint now and an Ineos rider accelerates off the front. 

65km

Intermediate sprint now and it's a complete non-event up front. Bagues takes it by virtue of doing his turn at that moment, but there was no contest there. 

The Caja Rural director is holding up Saez's helmet out of the window of the team car. Not sure why. It's absolutely destroyed and raises questions over whether the rider should still be in the race.

77km to go

It's super relaxed out there. It's one big chinwag in the peloton as the gap eases back out to three minutes. 

We're heading into Osorno now, so we've had a brief crosswind section there, and once we're out of the town it'll be a tail-cross as we head north. The roads are exposed but, as forecast, the wind doesn't seem to be blowing hard enough to split the bunch. 

Vuelta stage 9

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92km to go

The gap continues to fall. 2:15 now. The pace isn't really that high but we're out on exposed roads now and everyone's staying alert. 

Dorion Godon also hits the deck for AG2R, but he and Tanfield are back on their bikes.

Another crash, and it's another pinch point as we go through a small town. Harry Tanfield (AG2R) is among those on the deck in the low-speed spill. 

Just had a look back at the Saez crash and his helmet definitely breaks. His neck was supported by the doctors who appeared to be checking for head injury. He has been allowed to continue but was grimacing all the way back to the cars, but sometimes the effects of concussion and head injury aren't immediately apparent. 

Saez gets back to the peloton, as does Ackermann, who also went down but looked uninjured. The German is now with the medical car and he's given a spray, which he applies to his left knee before heading off. 

UAE and Bahrain McLaren also have a rider working with Garrison. The gap is down to 2:45 now. 

After a good while, with doctors examining him as he way lying down, Saez is deemed fit to continue. He gets back on his bike and will begin to try and make his way back to the peloton. 

Crash. Hector Saez (Caja Rural) is on the deck and looks in a fair bit of pain. 

And he takes another minute off the break's lead. Three minutes is the gap now, and that seems a little tight with 120km still to race. 

It's Ian Garrison pulling for QuickStep in the early kilometres

Ian Garrison

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Increase in pace in the peloton as the gap comes down to 4:10

Carapaz and Roglic at the start earlier.

AGUILAR DE CAMPOO SPAIN OCTOBER 29 Start Guillaume Martin of France and Team Cofidis Solutions Credits Polka Dot Mountain Jersey Richard Carapaz of Ecuador and Team INEOS Grenadiers Red Leader Jersey Primoz Roglic of Slovenia and Team Jumbo Visma Green Points Jersey Social distancing Peloton Cid Campeador Military Base Castrillo del Val Team Presentation during the 75th Tour of Spain 2020 Stage 9 a 1577km stage from Cid Campeador Military Base Castrillo del Val to Aguilar de Campoo lavuelta LaVuelta20 on October 29 2020 in Aguilar de Campoo Spain Photo by Justin SetterfieldGetty Images

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Our top story at the moment concerns Geraint Thomas, who's been on BBC Radio Wales this morning to talk about his off-season and how he struggled to watch Tao Geoghegan Hart win the Giro d'Italia. Full story here. 

The gap has stabilised at five minutes as Deceuninck-QuickStep take control of the bunch. 

137km to go

After 20km, Bagues and Osorio have found five minutes on the peloton. 

We've had just one sprint so far in this Vuelta, with stage 4 potentially offering us some clues about what might happen today. Bennett won convincingly and, with the strongest lead-out in the race, is the favourite to make it two today.

Jasper Philippsen (UAE Team Emirates) and Jakub Mareczko (CCC Team) were second and third that day, while fourth was Pascal Ackermann (Bora-Hansgrohe), who, after last season looked like he could become the best in the world but hasn't had a great time of it since this season resumed. He won two stages at Tirreno but has otherwise been off the pace. 

Anyway, here's what happened on stage 4.

The pair move out to beyond two minutes and it'll be interesting to see how much time the peloton ends up giving this unthreatening escape. In the past they'd be allowed out to double figures but sprint teams tend to keep much more close control these days. 

Well, those two appear to be our breakaway of the day. The peloton is letting them go and no one else fancies it. 

The first attack comes from Juan Felipe Osorio (Burgos-BH) and Aritz Bagues (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA).

We're off!

After an extended neutral zone, the flag has dropped and the stage is underway

The riders will have a cross-headwind as they head west from Burgos, but then more of a tail-cross when they turn north after 70km. The wind, however, doesn't seem to be blowing very strongly today.

Vuelta stage 9

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Incidentally, it's Roglic's birthday today. Happy birthday Primoz. He whipped out the fancy dress a day early - today's nice weather means no yellow arm warmers and gilet to go with his green jersey, gloves, and socks. 

Before we get going, now's the time to catch up on yesterday's action. The Vuelta found yet another new steep summit finish and Primoz Roglic, who struggled at Formigal on Sunday, bounced back to win the stage and close in on race leader Richard Carapaz. Report, results, photos all in this link. 

The riders have just rolled out of Burgos, home to a gothic cathedral and the best black pudding you'll ever taste. It's a neutralised start but the stage is scheduled to properly begin in 10 minutes. 

While there are no climbs to speak of, the stage isn't one of those completely pan-flat affairs you can find in the Tour. There are still plenty of undulating roads but nothing that will stop Deceuninck-QuickStep controlling this and nothing to blunt the finishing speed of their sprinter Sam Bennett, who is the runaway favourite for the win. 

Buenos días. I'm looking for the summit finish, but it's just not there... There's not even a single climb. It's a rare flat stage at the Vuelta, and a rare opportunity for the few sprinters we have in this peloton. 

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