News shorts: Nieve moves to fifth at Vuelta a Espana

Having taken over the Team Sky leadership following Chris Froome's exit from the Vuelta a EspanaMikel Nieve has gone from strength to strength in the high mountains moving up the overall classification one day at a time. 13th place in the 'queen stage' of the race lifted the 31-year-old climber from seventh to fifth overall, just under one minute from the third place of Rafal Majka (Tinkoff-Saxo).

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