Mission accomplished for Arroyo

Stage 12 was yet another day when the Caisse d'Epargne team sent a rider up the road in order to force others to chase, and today it was the turn of David Arroyo, who had started the stage 14'09 back. Once the gap went out to 11'30, the Astana team of Alexandre Vinokourov and Andrey Kashechkin had to ride in order to protect their positions. In this way, race leader Alejandro Valverde and the rest of the squad had an easy ride.

Arroyo ended up gaining 8'46 and moved up 14 places to 13th overall. He said after the stage that he was pleased with how things went. "The stage was a very fast one from the very first kilometres. I had some difficulty to join the breakaway when it went but the most important thing is that I finally succeeded in making it.

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