La Vuelta 2022 Stage 17 as it happened: Uran wins from breakaway to rise into the top 10

Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) has hit the deck. The white jersey is quickly back up and on his way but that could be a blow for the Spaniard, who has risen to third place this morning following the withdrawal of Primoz Roglic.

Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) is trying to bridge over with Elie Gesbert (Arkea-Samsic) and Alessandro De Marchi (Israel-Premier Tech). They are closing in on the leaders...

After a zippy start, the riders tackled an uphill segment and then another fast downhill followed straight afterwards by another uphill kicker. It's here where 10 riders have managed to extricate themselves from the pack. They are: Clement Champoussin and Bob Jungels (Ag2R-Citroen), Gino Mader (Bahrain Victorious), Jesus Herrada (Cofidis), Rigo Uran (EF Education-EasyPost), Quentin Pacher (Groupama-FDJ), Lawson Craddock (BikeExchange-Jayco), Kenny Elissonde (Trek-Segafredo), Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates) and Simon Gugliemi (Arkea-Samsic). Let's see if this one can stick...

If you're not feeling good then an opening hour like today's will really take its toll. We've just heard that Estonian climber Taaramae (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert) has quit the race - so we're down to 138 riders now. A total of 45 drop-outs so far is the most since 2015 when 52 riders didn't make it to the finish. It's safe to assume that, come Madrid, there'll be more left by the wayside. Could we beat the modern-day record of 70 withdrawals from 2004 and 2005?

That move by Champoussin, Russo and Shaw came to nothing, ditto a subsequent dig from Australia's Robert Stannard (Alpecin-Deceuninck). So we're back together - and it's no surprise given the average speed today of 52.2kmph. Compare that to yesterday's average of 38kmph and you get an idea of how much more intense the battle to get into the breakaway is today.

The TV images of the crash that ended Primoz Roglic's Vuelta were inconclusive because the cameras were either following Mads Pedersen leading out the sprint, or had their view of Roglic impeded by the Dane and Pascal Ackerman and Danny van Poppel duking it out for the win. A coming-together with Fred Wright was presumed to be the cause of the crash - something the Briton confirmed at the finish - but all manner of other theories were doing the rounds, including one that had Roglic's tyre slip on something on the road. But these images from David Smith show the moment Roglic clipped Wright as he tried to come past the Bahrain Victorious rider...

The next riders to try their luck are French duo Clement Champoussin (Ag2R-Citroen), Clement Russo (Arkea-Samsic) and the Briton James Shaw (EF Education-EasyPost). They have a spender advantage while Bahrain Victorious, Euskaltel-Euskadi and UAE Team Emirates pull on the front.

Ireland's Ryan Mullen (Bora-Hansgrohe) has zipped clear of the peloton to open up a 10-second lead. It's a fast start to the stage because it's largely downhill to the foot of the first uncategorised climb, which will make it hard for a breakaway to establish itself.

A reminder that Juan Ayuso is in white, Jay Vine in polka dots, Remco Evenepoel in red and Mads Pedersen in green. Ayuso, the youngest rider in the race, won't turn 20 until five days after the end of this Vuelta. He is in white because Evenepoel, who also qualifies for the youth standings as a 22-year-old, is the race leader. None of the classifications should change today because Pedersen now has a 220-point lead in the green standings and Vine is 29pts clear of Richard Carapaz with only 5 KOM points up for grabs at the finish.

It's been five years since the Belgian's first and last Vuelta stage win but he'll need to go again if he wants to end that run today: De Gendt is caught after his brief foray off the front. The mercury is pushing 27 degrees for this last stage start in Andalusia.

The flag goes down and almost instantly there's an attack from Thomas De Gendt, who represents just over 33% of the remaining Lotto Soudal riders left in this race. The Belgian breakaway specialist has been quiet for a few days and the parcours today does suit his strengths - provided he can get away with the right blend of rider.

Roglic is not the only rider ruled out of La Vuelta today: Italy's Filippo Conca (Lotto Soudal) and Frenchman Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) are also non-starters. That puts Lotto Soudal down to just three riders... Just 139 riders remaining in this race, from a total of 182 who rolled down the ramp in Utrecht.

The official site describes this one as ‘flat’ which is a bit like saying the Angliru is a sprint. While there are no categorised climbs before the final Cat.2 rise to the finish, there’s 2,000m of altitude gain along the way in the sweltering Extremadura region before the ascent to the Monasterio de Tentudia which, while only 5% over 10km includes some double-digit segments as well as a short downhill section which skewers the stats somewhat. Not for the sprinters.

Remco Evenepoel signalled a puncture shortly after being distanced by Primoz Roglic in the finale yesterday - but as the incident occurred during the final 3km, he was eventually given the same time as the chasing pack. Roglic's eight-second swing saw him reduce the lead to 1'26" but the Slovenian's withdrawal this morning means Enric Mas is no the Belgian's closest challenger, 2'01" down, with another Spaniard, Juan Ayuso, up to third place at 4'49".

The news we all dreaded was delivered this morning with confirmation from Jumbo-Visma that Primoz Roglic will not take to the start of today's stage. The Slovenian crashed badly on the home straight yesterday after his attack on the ramped finale forced a split and put pressure on the red jersey of Remco Evenepoel, who eventually conceded eight seconds following an entirely separate puncture controversy...