Stage 16

The road

At the start

Ambush country in Galicia

Nothing has moved for two days: Jonas Vingegaard by 48 seconds from João Almeida, Tom Pidcock third at 2:38. Today is the kind of stage that has ambushed this race before — 168 kilometres of narrow, twisting Galician lanes and 3,459 metres of climbing with no single hard mountain in it, which is exactly what makes it dangerous.

How it was won

1. 1128 km to go

   Break in Galicia

   A break goes on the Galician stage.

2. 215 km to go

   Protesters reshape the finish

   Protesters force the removal of the final climb, and the organisers improvise an unusual, shortened finale.

3. 38 km to go

   Bernal attacks

   On the reshaped run-in Egan Bernal attacks and rides clear to win the abbreviated stage.

4. 4At the line

   Bernal takes a poignant win

   Bernal wins the disrupted stage, a poignant victory for the Colombian.

The result