Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 16 of the Vuelta a España!
Here's a look at the profile of today's stage.
And here's a look at the stage map.
The riders will be rolling out to start today's stage in around 40 minutes.
Take a look back at Sunday's stage 15 with our report.
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Here's a look at the stage 15 results and GC standings.
Tom Paquot and Callum Scotson are out of the race this morning, leaving 145 men to start.
Primož Roglič and Enric Mas will both have designs on Ben O'Connor red jersey today.
The riders are now rolling out to start the 3km neutral zone.
A look at the riders heading out to start the day.
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Attacks from the start and green jersey Wout van Aert is caught in a crash.
He's quickly back up and running, however.
Astana's Harold Tejada is off the front.
Van Aert is a minute off the back.
Jack Haig is now out front solo with several riders chasing.
Isaac Del Toro among the attackers.
Tao Geoghegan Hart, Jack Haig, and Pavel Bittner are also part of the move.
More attacks go but the large front group is caught.
Attacks continue to fly but still no break on this lumpy start to the stage.
Van Aert is there as are Del Toro, Vine, Soler, Lecerf, Frigo, Riccitello, Rafferty, Lazkano, Zana, Engelhardt, Guglielmi, Poole, Tusveld, and Miholjevic.
Moniquet and Ion Izagirre are chasing.
Two minutes for the breakaway.
At just over an hour down on GC, Riccitello is the best-placed man in the break.
136km to go
Race leader Ben O'Connor has a mechanical problem and briefly drops off the rear of the peloton but he's back in there now.
5:25 from break to peloton now.
Moniquet and Izagirre make it 17 in the break.
Around 20km to go to the day's first climb, the first-category Mirador del Fito.
Here's a look at the riders in the breakaway.
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale lead the peloton for race leader Ben O'Connor.
The break are now on the first climb of the day, the Mirador del Fito (7.1km at 7.9%).
All still together in the break on the steep slopes of this opening climb.
Marc Soler goes on the attack in the final kilometre of the climb.
Van Aert chases, Vine counters.
Van Aert sticks with Vine into the final 500 metres.
Both are on 46 points in the mountain classification.
Vine tries to sprint past Van Aert but the Belgian easily wins the sprint and goes clear to take first over the top of the Mirador del Fito.
Van Aert takes 10 points to bring his total to 56.
Six points for Vine in second takes him to 52.
A 42kph average speed so far.
Van Aert is nearing the bottom of the descent and is still out front on his own.
Decathlon AGR2 La Mondiale lead the peloton over the top of the climb at 9:50 behind the break.
Van Aert takes on the uncategorised climb following the descent. He's 50 seconds up on the rest of the chase.
Van Aert at the head of the break before he went on the move solo.
Van Aert is a minute up the road now.
Van Aert continues to push on alone in the valley. He has under 20km to go to the base of the next climb.
81km to go
The riders behind in the chase are bringing the gap down, however. It's now at 50 seconds.
Van Aert is now sitting and waiting up for the break as they close in.
8:45 back to the peloton.
Not long to go until the break hits the climb.
The breakaway riders are just about to start the first-category Collada Llomena (7.6km at 9.3%).
Movistar have taken it up at the head of the peloton now.
Lazkano drops back from the break.
The breakaway riders are heading for the top now.
6:10 for the attackers.
Enric Mas makes a move at the front of the peloton!
The GC favourites react and Mikel Landa counters.
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Valentin Paret-Peintre leads the GC group on behalf of Ben O'Connor.
Van Aert is back up and running now after getting a fresh bike from his team car.
He's freewheeling down the descent, though.
Van Aert crashed into the hillside on his right-hand side and now he's pulled up once again. He's holding his knee and is being tended to by a medic as he sits in the boot of the team car.
It looks like race over for Van Aert.
Lazkano stops at the side of the road to wait for the GC group.
Red jersey O'Connor in the peloton.
The break has split on the way down.
It's back together at the front now, seven minutes up on the GC group.
Decathlon AG2R with four men at the front of the group, including O'Connor.
Wout van Aert has abandoned the Vuelta.
The breakaway riders are now closing in on the intermediate sprint.
Engelhardt and Moniquet are back in the peloton now.
The race passes Van Aert by as he abandons the Vuelta.
6:05 between the break and peloton on the run-in to the climb.
Here's a look at the profile of the final climb today (12.5km at 6.9%).
The breakaway start the climb of Lagos de Covadonga.
Vine leads the breakaway.
12 men in the move.
Poole now makes a move up front.
Frigo counters.
Zana and Poole chase.
5:20 back to the peloton.
Soler is chasing back on with Riccitello.
The pair make it across and now Soler tries a move.
Del Toro and Riccitello drop.
Frigo, Poole, and Zana went with Soler and now the Spaniard struggles to hold on.
Soler got back on, dropped his own teammate, and has now also been dropped.
Poole and Zana remain at the front now.
Five minutes back to the peloton.
Soler attacks again. Poole goes with him as Zana drops.
Paret-Peintre takes to the front of the peloton to lead the chase behind.
Poole and Soler still together at the front.
Landa has around 10 seconds on the GC group.
Mas now takes it up at the front.
Roglič, Carapaz, Kuss behind him.
Mas is leading the quartet across to Landa.
O'Connor dropped by that move.
4:35 from the leaders to the Mas/Roglič group. 4:50 back to O'Connor.
Up front, Zana is up with Poole and Soler.
Poole pushes on at the front.
Mas attacks again.
Carapaz goes with him. Up front, Soler makes another move.
Roglič chases across to Mas and Carapaz.
Soler has a gap up front.
Four minutes from solo Soler and then 45 seconds to O'Connor.
Landa has Lecerf from the breakaway with him in the chase behind.
O'Connor 50 seconds down.
Mas attacks again.
Carapaz and Gaudu stick with him with Roglič slower to react.
O'Connor almost a minute down now.
Roglič is close to virtual red.
20 seconds from Soler to Poole and Zana.
Roglič, Mas, Carapaz and Gaudu are still together.
Gaudu is dropping away.
Zana crosses the line in second, Poole in third.
O'Connor remains 50 seconds off Roglič, Mas and Carapaz.
Gaudu a few seconds off the back.
He's trying to make it back in as the group heads into the final kilometre.
Now a minute back to O'Connor.
Mas leads the group to the line.
The trio finish the stage 3:54 down on Soler.
O'Connor crosses the line and the gap is just under a minute.
The Australian remains in red tonight.
He leads Roglič by just five seconds now.
Filippo Zana second, Max Poole third on climb into clouds while Ben O'Connor holds lead by slim 5 seconds
Marc Soler celebrates his stage win.
Here's the stage 16 result.
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