Stage 7

The road

At the start

Teuns in red, and the Mas de la Costa

The crash that tore EF Education First apart cost Rigoberto Urán a collarbone, took Hugh Carthy with him and left Nicolas Roche's Vuelta in the road. Jesús Herrada won out of the wreckage and Dylan Teuns rode into red, leading De la Cruz by thirty-eight seconds and Roglič by 1:14. Today ends on the Mas de la Costa, a wall best described as four Murs de Huy stacked one on the next.

How it was won

1. 126 km to go

   Teuns cracks

   Overnight leader Dylan Teuns comes completely undone with 26km to go, haemorrhaging minutes on a brutal day that will reshape the top of the race.

2. 222 km to go

   Astana wind it up

   Over the penultimate Salto del Caballo, Astana sprint the run-in, mopping up Gilbert's token break and stringing the favourites out toward the wall of Mas de la Costa.

3. 33 km to go

   Quintana peppers the climb

   On the savage Mas de la Costa Quintana attacks again and again, each time glancing back to find Valverde grimly clinging on, the two Movistar men blurring the line between teammates and rivals.

4. 42 km to go

   Valverde's winning kick

   As the leading four crest the steepest ramps, Valverde recovers from his teammate's assaults and accelerates; only Roglič can follow, but the world champion has the finishing speed.

5. 5At the line

   Valverde wins, López back in red

   Valverde takes the sprint from Roglič at Mas de la Costa with time to celebrate, while López moves back into the red jersey by six seconds.

The result