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8.5km to go
Gesink continues at the front.
Guillaume Martin is still hanging on to the rear of the group.
9km to go
The EF duo of Carthy and Woods are quite far down the GC group. They should be suited to the super-steep slopes coming up though.
Just over 20 men left in the GC group, including five Jumbo-Visma men. Carapaz and Dan Martin are alone. Mas has Valverde.
10km to go
Froome drops away, his job done.
...and it's over for them. The Jumbo-Visma train sweeps up Martin and Sánchez.
Soler is dropped from the peloton again. Over 30 seconds down already.
11km to go
Cattaneo is caught by the peloton. 13 seconds to the two remaining leaders.
Gesink sets the pace for Jumbo-Visma ahead of Kuss, Vingegaard, Bennett and Roglič.
There are some hard ramps early on but the real tough stuff begins after 5.5km of the climb.
And the break has started the Angliru! Here we go...
Here's another look at the Angliru. Brutal. 2km to the start of the climb.
16km to go
25 seconds between the break and the peloton and another 20 back to Soler.
The Angliru looms...
20km to go
Marc Soler (Movistar) is off the back of the peloton as Jumbo-Visma take control at the top of the climb.
Martin takes the points over the top, no problem. 76 for him in total now, a full 52 up on second placed Sepp Kuss.
The peloton looks to only be around 20 riders on these steep slopes towards the top of the climb. 30 seconds to the lead trio.
This is the strongest Froome has looked since he came back to racing. Riders dropping from the group left, right and centre.
Froome and Carapaz have split from the peloton! Just a small gap as Jumbo-Visma work to close it down.
22km to go
Froome hits the front for Ineos with Carapaz on his wheel.
Now Martin is back at the front. He can bid for 10 points at the top again, then.
Cattaneo and Sánchez continue to lead, just five seconds up on Martin. They're 2km from the top.
Now Chaves is dropped from the peloton. Movistar continue to put in work.
25km to go
3.5km of the climb left and the two leaders are 10 seconds up on Martin. The peloton is now supposedly 55 seconds down. They're bringing back multiple men from the break, though.
And now the gap is out to 45 seconds. Not the most accurate timing, then.
Sánchez and Cattaneo have pushed on in the break, with Martin chasing. The break is in pieces.
It'll take some effort for Martin to grab the points at the top. Movistar are pushing on in the peloton and the gap is down to 30 seconds.
Here's the next climb, averaging 9.3 per cent over 5.4km like a mini-Angliru. It's the Alro del Cordal and the break have just started to climb it.
28km to go
Just 40 seconds between peloton and the break now as they ride through the valley. The leaders are back with the main break.
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Martin will just be looking to get to the top of the Alto del Cordal and grab another 10 KOM points.
20 seconds between the four leaders and the rest of the break.
37km to go
The gap is down to just over a minute now. 10km to go to the base of the day's penultimate climb.
Roux, Périchon, Martin and Madrazo have pushed on down the descent, leaving the rest of the break behind.
Ineos' Andrey Amador has also crashed on the descent. He'll work to get back to the peloton and is joined by several dropped riders as he gets going again.
44km to go
Erviti has dropped back from the break to help, while Martin took 10 points at the top of the climb.
Formolo hits the deck on the descent, losing his rear wheel on a corner. He's back up and running, though.
Movistar have really pushed on here. Riders have dropped out the rear of the peloton and they've brought the gap down to 1:15.
Here's a look at the break of the day.
50km to go
The break is 2km from the top of the climb and the peloton is within two minutes.
Chaves is dropped, too.
Oliveira has dropped back from that move after putting in his work. Meanwhile, García drops from the break.
Movistar are at the front of the peloton at the moment.
54km to go
Thymen Arensman (Sunweb) and Ivo Oliveira (UAE Team Emirates) have gone with them.
David de la Cruz (UAE Team Emirates) and Esteban Chaves (Mitchelton-Scott) have jumped away from the peloton on the climb.
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56km to go
The break reaches the Alto de Mozqueta (6.6km at 8.4 per cent).
García crashes in the break but he's quickly back up and running.
Formolo and Marczynski have made it across to the first group now,
62km to go
Another three points for Martin over the top of the climb. Two first-category climbs up next on the road to the Angliru.
Jumbo-Visma continue the set the pace on the front of the peloton. They're not letting the gap grow to more than 2:30 here.
More climbing for the break now as they hit the third-category climb of the Alto de San Emiliano.
70km to go
1:15 to the Formolo group. 2:30 to the peloton. It'll be a tough ask for the group to get across.
Martin now has 53 KOM points after that climb. He leads the classification by 29 points.
Osorio and Gasparotto are back with Formolo and Marczynski now after being dropped on the climb. 55 seconds between the groups.
Martin grabs the three points on offer over the top of the climb.
Formolo and Marczynski have left Philipsen behind on the climb. No time gap between them and the main break, though.
82km to go
1:45 back to the peloton as the break ride up the third-category Alto del Padrún.
Here's the break: Mattia Cattaneo, Michael Mørkøv (Deceuninck-QuickStep), Nans Peters (AG2R La Mondiale), Aleksandr Riabushenko (UAE Team Emirates), Luis León Sánchez (Astana), Andreas Schilling (Bora-Hansgrohe), Cameron Wurf (Ineos Grenadiers), Robert Stannard, Alex Edmondson (Mitchelton-Scott), Anthony Roux (Groupama-FDJ), Lukasz Wisniowki (CCC Team), Kobe Goossens, Tosh Van Der Sande (Lotto Soudal), Guillaume Martin, Pierre-Luc Périchon (Cofidis), Enrico Gasparotto (NTT Pro Cycling), Imanol Erviti (Movistar), Jhojan García (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), Ángel Madrazo, Juan Osorio (Burgos-BH)
Jasper Philipsen, Davide Formolo (UAE Team Emirates) and Tomasz Marczynski (Lotto Soudal) are chasing.
The group is with Roux and Van den Berg now, but the peloton isn't far behind.
90km to go
The group has around 15-20 riders in it. Jumbo-Visma and Movistar are at the front of the peloton.
Guillaume Martin – unsurprisingly – is among the group pushing on. Their advantage over the peloton is increasing a little, but the peloton is still trying to close them down.
A larger group are pursuing the two leaders, but the peloton is close behind.
More riders are trying to get across, of course.
104km to go
Anthony Roux (Groupama-FDJ) and Julius van den Berg (EF Pro Cycling) have a small gap.
Small groups are attempting to get away but nothing is established yet. The peloton is lined out.
109km to go
Now the riders have taken the real start and racing is on!
NTT rider Carlos Barbero is prepared for his Angliru debut...
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Here's our report on stage 20 of the 2017 Vuelta, the last time the race tackled the climb.
And here's what Chris Froome had to say on the climb.
"When you say Angliru, I just think of relentless pitches. It's savage, especially in some of the switchbacks you're looking at over 25 per cent in places.
"The TV cameras really don't do it justice. You have to be on a bike trying to get up those slopes to feel what it's like.
"You do have the gearing, especially these days, but quite often about the Angliru it's the racing leaeding up to – it's always in the third week of the Vuelta. Even the climbs beefore Angliru, they're not easy climbs. By the time you get there the legs are tired already. Then you get to the foot of the Angliru, some of the GC guys are going to push on. When you're a GC rider following those attacks, you really see the race split to pieces.
"It's just one of those climbs where you've got absolutely nowhere to hide."
The riders are currently in the neutralised zone and are riding to the real start.
The Angliru isn't a mountain pass and doesn't lead up to a town, ski station or telecommunications tower either. There's nothing at the top but a big empty space.
The road to the top, which was paved specifically for the climb's inclusion in the 1999 Vuelta, is only there in the first place for farmers to take up to graze livestock.
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The Angliru has been raced seven times at the Vuelta before. It made its debut back in 1999, when José María Jiménez caught Pavel Tonkov before beating him to the line. Gilberto Simoni won a year later, while Roberto Heras triumphed on the famous rain-soaked stage in 2002 – the day which saw David Millar quit the race on the finish line in protest.
Alberto Contador won on the next ascent of the climb, six years later, en route to his first Vuelta victory while Juan José Cobo took a stunning win in 2011, before his Vuelta victory was later taken away.
Kenny Elissonde won the stage in 2013 as Chris Horner sealed his overall victory, while the 2017 ascent saw Contador win once again on the penultimate race day of his illustrious career.
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Here's the climb profile, featuring some of the most brutal gradients in the pro cycling world. It's 12.4km long at an average of 9.9 per cent but that understates it if anything, given the final 6km are all double-digit gradients with figures reaching into the 20s.
Then there's the Angliru. Here's a look at the climb with Pedro Delgado and Samuel Sánchez from a few years ago.
It's only 109km of racing but Vuelta organisers have packed four classified climbs – including two first category climbs – before the riders take on the Angliru.
The Alto del Padrún (3km at 6.6 per cent), Alto de Santo Emiliano (5.8km at 4.9 per cent), Alto de la Mozqueta (6.6km at 8.4 per cent) and the Alto del Cordal (5.4km at 9.3 per cen) all lie in wait before the day's finale.
The riders will set off to begin the stage in around 40 minutes.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 12 of the Vuelta a España as the race runs into November and the peloton take on the fearsome climb of the Alto de l'Angliru for the first time since 2017.
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