Hello and welcome to the decisive stage of this year's Vuelta a Espana - a 97km mountain schlep in Andorra that features six categorised climbs and will decide the destiny of the red jersey. Can Simon Yates hold on? We'll find out over the next few hours...

De Gendt zips clear near the summit to pocket the 5pts. That puts the Belgian 15pts clear of Luis Angel Mate (Cofidis) in the battle for the polka dot jersey. Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) crested in second place, which puts the Dutchman one point behind Mate in third place. Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky) is third over.

The first move comes from Salvatore Puccio (Team Sky) who's joined by Tiejs Benoot (Lotto Soudal), who looks to be setting things up for his team-mate Thomas De Gendt who is in polka dots. They're joined by numerous other riders.

Straight on to the first test of the day, the Cat.2 Coll de la Comella (4.4km at 8.7%).

They're off!

Here's the official profile of today's brutal stage - six climbs, 53 points for the KOM battle, 13 bonus seconds and 29 green jersey points all up for grabs. Oh, and the red jersey.

Yesterday, Great Britain’s Simon Yates extended his lead in La Vuelta after attacking his rivals with 10 kilometres remaining of the Coll de la Rabassa to finish in second place behind Frenchman Thibaut Pinot in Stage 19 in Andorra.