Welcome to coverage of stage 11 of the Vuelta a Espana. We begin at 10:50 UK time so join us then...

Joaquin Rodriguez comes in fourth.

Mosquera comes in second and Tondo in third.

Igor Anton has came back from a 15 minute gap to claim this stage.

Igor Anton has passed Nibali, and then Mosquera.

Rodriguez has dropped behind, and his expressions suggest that he is in pain. Igor Anton is close behind Mosquera.

Mosquera is now in front, with Nibali close behind in the final stages of this section of the Vuelta.

The pack has caught them. Joaquin Rodriguez is now one of the front runners, Katusha has another three riders up next to him.

Cherel is the first to be caught by the pack, and it seems as if Fofonov and Tschopp will be also.

Dmitriy Fofonov has taken the lead.

Fofonov has caught the leaders, the rest of the pack is only seven seconds behind.

The leaders have now reached the bottom of the grueling slope, as they hold on now to a slim advantage of 25 seconds.

Mark Cavendish is set to lose his green jersey as he falls behind the pack during the sprint. Mikael Cherel comes first, closely followed by Johann Tschopp and Tyler Farrar comes in third.

It looks like the front runners may be caught as there are 15km's left and have a small lead now only have a lead of just over one minute.

As the cyclists enter the principality of Andorra, the gap is ever decreasing, it is now 3:21.

Another minute has been cut off of the advantage. The riders are only 6 kilometres away from the second intermediate sprint.

Rabobank have formed a line at the front of the pack in an attempt to catch up with the two leading men.

A gap of 5:46. The road won't stop rising until the finish now, and will only get steeper.

The escapees slowly being caught by the pack, now have a lead of 6:09. Still comfortable, but they have 36km to go.

Rabobank is working extremely hard to make up the differance, and have made up another minute and are now 7:44 behind.

After having a lead of nearly 15 minutes, the pack has reduced the deficit to under 9 minutes with less than 50km to go.