Vuelta: Valverde not too concerned by time loss on stage 14

Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) started the 14th stage of the Vuelta a España in second place overall and finished the day in the same position despite conceding time to his major GC rivals. Valverde was unable to hold on to Chris Froome (Team Sky), Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) and the other GC riders on the steepest part of the final two kilometres of the climb on La Camperona when the gradient touched 15%.

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