Stage 13

The road

How it was won

1. 1127 km to go

   Chavanel triggers it, Quintana suffers

   Forty kilometres of relentless attacking end on the Collado de Oseja when Chavanel goes with Oliveira and Arashiro. Behind them Nairo Quintana — 'empty', in his own doctor's word, after days of fever — is dropped on the climb.

2. 229 km to go

   Seventy kilometres an hour off the Moncayo

   Poljanski crests first and is caught before the bottom. Then Nelson Oliveira takes another flyer down the mountain at 70kph, and the multiple Portuguese time trial champion turns a descender's gap into a time triallist's lead.

3. 3At the line

   Lampre play it perfectly

   Plaza and Conti sit in the chase group slowing everything and marking every move while their directeur drives alongside Oliveira barking through the car window. He wins alone in Tarazona by a margin that has grown all the way to the line.

The result