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Vuelta a Espana 2018: Stage 12

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Mitchelton-Scott's race management on yesterday's was criticised by Alejandro Valverde, who Movistar team stepped up to the plate and took responsibility for chasing down a break that featured dangerman Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ). "Mitchelton don't work [to bring back breaks] because that's not their philosophy," Valverde said. "They only work when they want to do harm, but when it's to defend a lead, it's hard to see them do that. The only team that worked to pull back the breakaway has been us." Alasdair Fotheringham has the full story here.

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Simon Yates was typically sanguine after he held the red jersey at the end of a frantic stage 11. "The team did a great job for over 100 kilometres, and afterwards Movistar chased because they have to. We don't have enough guys to control the race for over 100 kilometres, and they have the best two guys," said Yates, who is 1 second up on Valverde and 14 ahead of Nairo Quintana. Alasdair Fotheringham has more here.

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Yesterday, the UCI announced that Nibali's teammate Kanstantin Siutsou has tested positive for EPO in an out-of-competition test on July 31.The 36-year-old was under-23 world champion in 2004 and has raced for Team Sky, Highroad,Barloworld, Dimension Data and Fassa Bortolo during his professional career before signing for Bahrain-Merida last year. "Am NOT understand Whot is happening! [sic]" Siutsou wrote on Instagram after the news broke. 

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The escapees have stretched their advantage out to 10 minutes, and they will be increasingly confident that this move is going to go the distance.

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Thibaut Pinot's presence in the break of the day lit up yesterday's stage, and though the Frenchman ultimately gained a scant 12 seconds over his fellow GC contenders, he signalled that he will be a danger man as the race heads into the high mountains this weekend. The Frenchman is 16th overall at 2:20, but will expect to start moving up in the coming days. "The legs are good and that's good for the future," said Pinot. Read more here.

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Away from the Vuelta, LottoNL-Jumbo have won the novel team time trial at the Tour of Britain, and Primoz Roglic has moved into the overall lead. Full details will follow here.

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That's the third Vuelta stage win of Geniez's career after his triumph at Peyragudes in 2013 and his victory at Mirador de Ezaro in 2016. "I did the Giro for the GC and I’ve come here to go for a stage win," Geniez said. "This is the kind of day I enjoy, but no, I wasn’t confident of winning. There were 18 riders and everyone had a chance. When the break split in two my chances increased, but Van Baarle is fast and Campenaerts is very strong. It was a tough sprint in the end."

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