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The fourth kilometre is 6.4% and the fifth is 2% before the real hard gradients kick in.
A relatively gentle few kilometres at 8-9% to start...
12.4km to go
Evenepoel begins the climb at 1:20 up on the Bahrain Victorious-led peloton.
12.4km at 9.8% with multiple kilometres in double-digit gradients and sections over 20%...
Evenepoel now closing in on the bottom of the Angliru...
15km to go
Soler is caught by the peloton now after 38km on the attack.
He picked up 10 mountain points along the way so it wasn't all for nothing!
A determined Remco Evenepoel shortly before he pushed on alone up the Alto del Cordal.
Tratnik, Van Baarle, Valter, Gesink all gone already for Jumbo-Visma. They have Kelderman left with Kuss, Vingegaard and Roglič.
7km to the start of the Angliru for Evenepoel.
Evenepoel tackles the descent.
Soler still hanging out there in front of the peloton.
21km to go
Evenepoel over the top for another 10 mountain points. He's on 91 to Vingegaard's 41 now.
Attila Valter is off the back of the peloton now.
Evenepoel into the final 500 metres of the climb.
Friend of felines Antonio Tiberi is setting the pace for Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa's team.
Bahrain closing the gap a little. 2:25 now.
The peloton already small with the Angliru still to come.
Evenepoel making his way up some of the tougher gradients now.
2km to the top for Evenepoel. He's two minutes up on Soler with the peloton now at 2:40.
Van Baarle drops from the peloton as Bahrain Victorious come to the front.
Plenty of tough gradients on this climb with multiple sections at 13-14%
Cattaneo drops back to Soler.
25km to go
Soler is solo in the chase behind Evenepoel but he's two minutes down. Kinda seems like this attack has been a huge waste of time so far.
Jumbo-Visma have plenty of firepower behind but Evenepoel had a day of relative rest yesterday – he crossed the line at over 14 minutes down.
Robert Gesink's work for his team is done as he pulls off the front.
2:50 back to the peloton as Dylan Van Baarle leads the group.
A 26.5km solo effort from Evenepoel now needed.
Cattaneo pulls off the front and Evenepoel gives him a pat on the arm to thank him as he rides past.
The first-category Alto del Cordial is 5.4km at 9.2%.
Cattaneo led Evenepoel through the intermediate sprint and now the duo are about to start the next climb of the day.
1:45 back to the Soler group now. They are falling back to the peloton.
30km to go
Into the final 30km of the day for the two leaders now.
Now 1:25 to the chase, 2:30 to the peloton.
Evenepoel has Cattaneo pushing hard for him while in the chase none of them have a teammate who can empty themselves on the front.
36km to go
The chasers aren't making any headway into the lead of Evenepoel and Cattaneo.
11km to go until the riders hit the day's second climb.
2:25 back to the peloton.
Soler now has Germani and Sepulveda with him in the chase at 1:05 down.
Evenepoel and Cattaneo hit the flat lands at the bottom of the descent.
44km to go
A minute for the lead duo on Soler now as they head down the descent.
Jumbo-Visma leading the peloton.
Jumbo-Visma lead the peloton across the top of the Colladiella at 2:40 down.
48km to go
Soler crosses the top at 1:10 down.
Evenepoel leads Cattaneo ovevr the top and that's another 10 points for him to take his mountain classification total to 81.
Jonas Vingegaard is in second there on 41 points.
The Spaniard passes Germani and now he's the second group on the road.
Soler working his way past the riders in the chase. He's 1:20 down on the lead duo and 1:10 up on the peloton.
Evenepoel and Cattaneo in the break with the now-dropped Germani.
Riders dropping at the rear of the peloton on the first climb of the day.
Drizners and Warbasse back to the peloton after dropping from the chase group.
Evenepoel and Cattaneo are now 2:30 up on the peloton.
UAE Team Emirates must have a random tactic generator between this and whatever Finn Fisher-Black was trying to do yesterday.
52km to go
Marc Soler attacks. Why?
Germani drops from the lead trio 4km from the top of the climb. Evenepoel and Cattaneo continue alone.
No urgency in the peloton as the gap continues to go up.
1:50 from the break to the peloton.
A first-category climb with a very hard second half.
56km to go
The lead trio start the climb.
Still a very high average speed of 50.6kph.
The riders closing in on the first climb of the day, the Alto de la Coladiella (7.8km at 7.1%). They're 2km away from the start.
Evenepoel, Cattaneo, and Germani 1:30 up on the peloton as the chase group lies a minute down.
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Jumbo-Visma setting the pace at 1:20 down on the leaders.
More riders jumping from the peloton now.
Theuns and Lotto-Dstny men Andreas Kron and Eduardo Sepulveda have made it across to Warbasse and Drizners.
Evenepoel, Cattaneo, and Germani are up front now.
70km to go
Now Drizners and Warbasse are dropped.
Evenepoel, Cattaneo, Warbasse, Germani, Drizners are left up front.
But now riders are dropping away as Jumbo-Visma drive the peloton.
The breakaway...
Remco Evenepoel, Mattia Cattaneo (Soudal-QuickStep); Lorenzo Germani (Groupama-FDJ)l; Jorge Arcas (Movistar); Jarrad Drizners (Lotto-Dstny); Romain Combaud, Chris Hamilton (DSM-Firmenich); Geoffrey Bouchard, Larry Warbasse (AG2R Citroën); Jorge Arcas (Movistar); Paul Ourselin (TotalEnergies)
Evenepoel's group is across to the leaders now.
Finally we have live images. Seemingly just in time to have missed the battle for the breakaway.
The trio get across to Drizners, Bouchard, and Ledanois at 10 seconds down on the leaders.
76km to go
Evenepoel goes on the attack again along with Paul Ourselin (TotalEnergies) and Jorge Arcas (Movistar).
81km to go
Still no live TV pictures on the queen stage of the Vuelta.
More riders attack the peloton – Jarrad Drizners (Lotto-Dstny) with Geoffrey Bouchard (AG2R Citroën) and Kévin Ledanois (Arkéa-Samsic).
Meanwhile it's still 30 seconds for the break.
Matevž Govekar (Bahrain Victorious) gets treated at the medical car after getting caught in the crash earlier.
But they don't make it far before getting caught.
88km to go
Evenepoel and Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) now jumping.
Omar Fraile and Finn Fisher-Black among the riders returning to the peloton after getting caught in that crash.
The peloton not letting this group get very far just yet.
94km to go
30 seconds for the attackers as Theuns and Bissegger are caught.
Edward Theuns (Lidl-Trek) and Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost) are trying to get across.
20 seconds for that group.
Mattia Cattaneo (Soudal-QuickStep) is on the move for the second day in a row. He's with Lorenzo Germani (Groupama-FDJ), Larry Warbasse (AG2R Citroën) and the DSM-Firmenich pairing of Chris Hamilton and Romain Combaud.
The riders race past the 100km to go mark.
Several riders hit the deck in the peloton. Men from UAE Team Emirates, Burgos-BH, Bahrain Victorious, and Ineos Grenadiers are caught up.
The average speed so far is 52kph.
102km to go
A very quick start to the stage with the battle for the breakaway.
The group can't make it away just yet though.
Evenepoel is in there.
10 riders on the attack at the moment.
110km to go
Still no moves going clear at the front.
Kim Heiduk (Ineos Grenadiers) and Julius Johansen (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) were also up there with Evenepoel before being brought back.
117km to go
The attack is caught.
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Dstny) and Evenepoel's teammate Casper Pedersen also on the move.
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) among the attackers.
Attacks flying from the start as riders try to make the break.
124.5km to go
The flag drops and stage 17 is underway!
The riders still rolling through the long neutral zone.
The stage is underway and the riders are taking on an 8.2km neutral zone before the flag drops.
124.5km coming up with a long flat ride to start the stage.
The team presentation sand sign-ons are complete and riders are preparing to roll out on stage 17.
Just a few minutes from the stage start.
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The sign that will greet the riders as they take on La Cueña les Cabres, the steepest section of the Angliru.
15 minutes to the stage start.
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"To ride the second, hardest part of the Angliru well, you have to know how to exert yourself to the maximum on a really steep slope: but – and this is critical – it's also about keeping in mind that there are no breaks in the steepness," said four-time Vuelta winner Roberto Heras, who won on the climb in 2022.
"So you can’t go over your limit, because if you do, there’s no way back into the game. The climb is that hard."
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There are no confirmed DNSes so far this morning. It looks like 150 riders will start the stage.
40 minutes to go until the start of today's stage in the Asturian town of Ribeseya.
Meanwhile, race leader Sepp Kuss said after the stage that the Vuelta's red jersey battle isn't an intra-Jumbo-Visma competition.
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And the GC picture heading into stage 17 and the Altu de L'Angliru.
A look back at the stage result.
Yesterday's stage 16 brought another summit finish at Bejes and an emotional victory for Jonas Vingegaard, who gained 1:15 on his teammate and race leader Sepp Kuss.
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We're just under an hour from the start of today's stage.
Are you ready for the Altu de L'Angliru?
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