The Final Ascension to the Farrapona-Lagos de Somiedo, with prolonged ramps, will be one of the decisive moments of the race, in a chain that will punish the runners and offer an ideal scenario for favorites to measure forces before the last week.
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After the epic I pass through The Angliruwhere João Almeida (UAE) It was imposed with authority but Jonas Vingegaard (Visma) The red jersey retained, the return to Spain 2025 this Saturday faces another decisive day. Stage 14, just 135.9 kilometers between Aviles and El Alto de la Farrapona, It presents an explosive and mountain tour that can make important differences in the general classification before the second day of rest.
The platoon will face an uncomfortable start, with 64 kilometers of demanding repeches and roads, a propitious land for a quality leakage to be consolidated. The first great difficulty of the day will arrive with the Alto Tenebreo (3rd category)an rise of 5.8 km at 6.2% with sections that reach 8%, capable of filtering the strongest.
Altimetry of stage 14 of the return to Spain 2025
The stage hardens in the Puertu de San Llaurienzu (1st category): 10 km to 8.5% with double digit ramps in its second half. It is an ideal port for runners attacks that need to recover time, because it links directly with the final terrain without breathing.
The closure will be in the mythical Alto de la Farrapona (1st category)17 km at 6% on average. Its last six kilometers concentrate the greatest hardness, with 9% constant slopes and ramps that can unleash differences of minutes between favorites.
Jonas Vingegaard starts as a leading solid with a total time of 49h30: 54, followed by 46 seconds by Almeida, his great rival after what was seen in Angliru. British Tom Pidcock (Q36) remains on the provisional podium at 2:18. Further back, Jai Hindley, Felix Gall and Giulio Pellizzari appear, all within the first five minutes.
Colombians are still in the fight for Top 10. Egan Bernal (Ineos) March 12 to 8:01, Harold Tejada (Astana) It is 14:00 and Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) It occupies the position 21 to more than half an hour.
With two consecutive finals, the Asturian mountain does not give truce. The pharrapona will serve as a definitive thermometer before the break, and any faint can cost expensive. Almeida will seek to cut Vingegaard time, while podium candidates will try to take advantage of the accumulated fatigue of the Danish and her team after the battle of Angliru.
The second week of the Vuelta closes with a promise of show: a short, intense stage and with chained ports that can redefine the stage of the race before facing the decisive third week. It can be seen from 7:00 am by Caracol Televisión.
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