Sure this stage ends with a flat finish but that does not take into consideration the category 1 Porte de Mijares (km. 56) and category 2 Porte de Navalmoral (km 120). These brutes will allow for a team to work for its captain and the possibility to eliminate some of his GC rivals. The finale, last visited in 2005, presents a technical cobblestone avenue.
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Vuelta a España stage 6 LIVE: Jonas Vingegaard and rivals battling on the the first summit finish of race
170km and 3,600 metres of climbing on the menu on the road to Pal -
Chris Froome hospitalised with multiple fractures after a crash during training
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Vuelta a España director vows action against pro-Palestine protesters who disrupted Israel-Premier Tech during stage 5
'We are going to file a complaint; we cannot allow what happened' says Javier Guillén -
'You're on a knife-edge, mistakes can and do happen' – Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe regroup to fourth after nasty Sobrero crash in Vuelta a España TTT
'He's our engine room – to lose him at that point in the race obviously lost us a lot of performance' says Head of Engineering Dan Bigham to Cyclingnews
