As it happened: No change in Vuelta a España lead on Lagos de Covadonga

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.

182km to go

The flag drops and racing is underway for stage 16.

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.

173km to go

Double stage winner Pablo Castrillo is among the men now trying to go.

Jack Haig is now out front solo with several riders chasing. 

167km to go

Van Aert is now back in the peloton. 

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.

156km to go

Marc Soler now trying a move.

Attacks continue to fly but still no break on this lumpy start to the stage.

147km to go

15 riders are up the road now.

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.

127km to go

Over six minutes for the breakaway now.

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%).

110km to go

9:25 for the breakaway.

All still together in the break on the steep slopes of this opening climb.

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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.

103km to go

Van Aert tackles the descent solo.

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.

85km to go

9:15 from Van Aert to the peloton.

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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.

75km to go

Van Aert has now been brought into the 17-man break group.

8:45 back to the peloton.

Not long to go until the break hits the climb.

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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.

62km to go

8:45 to the break.

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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56km to go

Now Van Aert takes off at the front of the break to go solo once again.

Valentin Paret-Peintre leads the GC group on behalf of Ben O'Connor.

50km to go

A crash in the breakaway as Engelhardt slides out at the front of the group on the descent. Van Aert and Del Toro have also gone down.

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.

44km to go

6:35 from break to peloton.

Lazkano stops at the side of the road to wait for the GC group.

40km to go

He's now back in the 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.

Engelhardt, Moniquet, and Rafferty are still off the back though.

Decathlon AG2R with four men at the front of the group, including O'Connor.

28km to go

6:30 for the break.

Wout van Aert has abandoned the Vuelta.

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Points classification leader hits deck with two other riders with under 50km to go

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.

15km to go

Red  Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe lined up at the front behind the four Decathlon AG2R men.

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.

11km to go

Tusveld, Miholjevic, Guglielmi, and Lecerf drop away.

Poole now makes a move up front.

Frigo counters.

Zana and Poole chase.

5:20 back to the peloton.

10km to go

Frigo, Poole, Zana, Del Toro now off the front.

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.

9km to go

Soudal-QuickStep take over at the front of the peloton.

Poole and Zana remain at the front now.

8km to go

Soler is making his way back across.

Five minutes back to the peloton.

Soler attacks again. Poole goes with him as Zana drops.

7km to go

Landa goes on the move from the peloton.

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.

6km to go

The leaders now on 14% gradients as Zana chases.

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.

5km to go

Mas brings the group, which also includes Gaudu, across to Landa.

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.

4km to go

Mas leads Carapaz, Roglič, and Gaudu.

Four minutes from solo Soler and then 45 seconds to O'Connor.

Landa has Lecerf from the breakaway with him in the chase behind.

3km to go

Just a few seconds for Landa and Lecerf to make up.

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.

2km to go

Soler is still on his own up front.

20 seconds from Soler to Poole and Zana.

Roglič, Mas, Carapaz and Gaudu are still together.

1km to go

Soler is racing to the stage win now.

Gaudu is dropping away.

Finish

Marc Soler wins stage 16 of the Vuelta a España!

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.

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Marc Soler celebrates his stage win.

Here's the stage 16 result.