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Hola and welcome to live coverage of Stage 11 of La Vuelta as the race returns to Spanish soil for an undulating 180km ride from Saint Palais to Urdax-Dantxarinea - ideal breakaway terrain with three lower category climbs and a technical finale.

Vuelta a España
Stage 11 | Semi mountain | Men | 04.09.2019
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Saint-PalaisDantxarinea
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Updated 04/09/2019 at 15:53 GMT


16:52
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The Jumbo-Visma team of red jersey Primoz Roglic cross the line 18'35" down. So, no major changes in any of the classifications today - except those three extra points for Madrazo in the polka dot jersey standings.
16:50
Angel Madrazo has just crossed the line, on his own and well behind Ben O'Connor. He's still 1.5km ahead of the peloton.
16:40
Meanwhile, the Jumbo-Visma-led peloton are still over 8km from the finish. Still in France, in fact.
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What a Vuelta the wildcard teams are having: Burgos-BH have a stage and the polka dot jersey with Madrazo, Cofidis their stage through Jesus Herrada and one day in red with Nicolas Edet, and now Euskadi-Murias have a win on their own turf. Just Caja-Rural now - they were runners up today, and a few days ago, too...
16:39
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Today's stage result as Iturria takes his first ever pro win.
16:35
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Jonathan Lastra (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) pipped Lawson Craddock (EF Education-First) and the other chasers for second place six seconds down. They came close but not close enough.
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Victory for Mikel Iturria (Euskadi-Murias) - and a quite spectacular one, too.
0.5km
Magical stuff...
1km
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He's not giving up! The gap came down to a few seconds - but he's now on a downhill ride towards the finish after the flamme rouge.
1.5km
Howson and Ghebreigzabhier ride clear and have Iturria in their sights.
2km
Howson and Craddock are the strongest through a roundabout - but they still trail Iturria by 10 seconds.
2.5km
The chasers are starting to look at each other - and that's never a good sign.
3km
And still, it's 11 seconds for Iturria out ahead. He's entering Urdax Dantxarinea and riding like a man possessed.
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5km
The five riders should be able to combine to reel in the lone leader - unless people start to become passengers...
6km
Still 12 seconds for never-say-die Iturria over the five chasers.
7km
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Before the finish we have, quite inexplicably, the intermediate sprint. Which no one cares about and I have no clue who wins. Well, I do, it's Iturria, by default, but I don't know what happens behind. Why they placed it here is anyone's guess.
8km
Just 12 seconds now for Iturria as Craddock joins the chase party behind.
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