00:01...moving themselves forward, plenty of road furniture roundabouts to contend with, not contested here in La Vella, Pandora La Vella, Renzo Fortunato rolls through, he takes the 20 points of that intermediate sprint,
00:20the 10 riders in the breakaway are at the bottom of the Alto de la Camella, this second categorised climb, 4.2 kilometres long with an average gradient of 8%, however, gradients upward of 10, 11, 12% along the way.
00:37RK and B&B hotels having come to prominence in the last few kilometres, they send one rider up the road, meanwhile, at the front of the race, they crest the top of the Alto de la Camella on the second categorised climb.
00:57Let's see the replay, here we go. This is what's happened to Joao Almeida, he's had to have a bike change, he takes off the bottles, the mechanics out of the car, they take the spare bike off the roof of the team car, Dominovic right on hand to help Joao Almeida, the Portuguese rider, come back to the group.
01:19And here we see Jay Vine having left behind the other riders of the breakaway, he decides to try to go solo from here to the finish line, it looked like we saw him also go and crest the Alto de la Camella's first rider.
01:38The chasers to Jay Vine pass through 15 kilometres to go, they trail by 17 seconds, Archie Ryan dancing on the pedals, trying to break away from this group, he's got his team mate James Shaw, he's number 87 in that pink jersey, and yo-yoing on and off the back is Bruno Amurai.
01:57He's about to officially start his last climb, the climb to the finish line in Pau, but we would have all been able to see.
02:08He thought his way back on and Torsten Traijn, the 30-year-old Norwegian right from Barring Victoria, is going in pursuit of Jay Vine with 5.4 kilometres to go.
02:19He's starting to eat into that deficit, 54 seconds between Jay Vine and Torsten Traijn, it's the young Spaniard who's starting to be distanced from the peloton, this is a huge shock, the first mountain test and already Ayuso showing that he cannot follow his rivals.
02:39They took the gamble, got themselves into that breakaway, now we see the first move from the peloton behind, Giulio Ciccone strikes to gain some time on his rivals, Jonas Vingegor acute to that move, the red jersey gets himself right onto the wheel of the Italian from Lidltrek.
02:58They're working together here, Jonas Vingegor and Giulio Ciccone, this is good news for the Italian, that Lidltrek, in the last 20 kilometres they sprung to prominence.
03:13He still chases, he's still in pursuit, he wants to try and gain as much time as possible on his rivals, perhaps hoping that maybe this man might capitulate towards the top of Pau.
03:25The first mountain test of this year's Vuelta Espana, Jay Vine, he took his first pro victory, that came on stage 6 of La Vuelta and three years later Jay Vine is going to win stage 6 again.
03:42Grand Tour stage victory number 3 for the Australian, his first Grand Tour stage victory in the colours of UAE Team Emirates XRG and he wins the first mountain test.
03:55And it's going to be barring victorious who are in red, Thorsten Train takes second on the stage on the first mountain test here in Pau in Andorra and rides himself into La Roja leading La Vuelta.
04:07Here is a little bit of marking going on between the leaders and it gives the opportunity for some of the riders that were distanced first to come back.
04:15But the moment they get back on there, there is a big attack from Joao Almeida being followed by Jonas Vingegor and on his wheel Giulio Ciccone.
04:23Well, they're going to sprint it out and Joao Almeida wants to try and grab a handful of seconds if possible.
04:32200 metres remain for the main rivals fighting for this general classification while Thorsten Train has just put himself into the red jersey.
04:43Vingegor saying goodbye to that.
04:44It's going to be Joao Almeida who, he doesn't break the group behind, they come in 4 minutes and 21 seconds down on that of the stage winner Vine.
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