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>>> Vuelta a España stage 12: Juan Ayuso beats Javier Romo in two-up breakaway sprint to secure victory
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GC after stage 12
1. Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) Visma-Lease a Bike 44:36’45”
2. João Almeida (POR) UAE Team Emirates-XRG +50″
3. Tom Pidcock (GBR) Q36.5 Pro Cycling +56″
4. Torstein Træen (NOR) Bahrain Victorious +1’06”
5. Felix Gall (AUT) Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale +2’17”
6. Bruno Armirail (FRA) Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale +2’22”
7. Matteo Jorgenson (USA) Visma-Lease a Bike +2’26”
8. Jai Hindley (AUS) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe +2’30”
9. Giulio Ciccone (ITA) Lidl-Trek +2’33”
10. Giulio Pellizzari (ITA) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe +2’44”
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Top 10
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Javier Romo of Movistar takes a very good second on the day with an amazing third for Brieuc Rolland of Groupama-FDJ who held off Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease a Bike) in fourth and Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) in fifth.
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Juan Ayuso of UAE Team Emirates-XRG wins stage 12 of La Vuelta 2025.
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500 metre to go.
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Ayuso has Romo pinned on the front but they can’t play too much as Rolland is close as are Campenaerts and the Pedersen group.
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Campenaerts has attacked clear of the chase group and he gets a gap as he rides to a potential 4th place.
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Flamme Rouge!
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3km to go and the gap has dropped to 46″ back to the chase group. Rolland still in the gap between the two groups.
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Ayuso had a go at Romo for not pulling on the climb so the Movistar rider came through but now Ayuso is now skipping turns with Romo. Interesting tactics from the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider.
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Rolland is still putting in an amazing ride in third at 17″ with multiple counter attacks coming behind led by Nico Denz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe).
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Into the final 6km and the chasing group is just looking at each other.
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10km to go
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Mads Pedersen is back in the chase group and immediately attacks! He is quite an astonishing rider.
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Rolland is still in the gap, however. He is just 16″ off the back wheel of the two leaders.
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The leaders are working very well together and the gap extends to 56″ on the chase.
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The average speed so far is 43.4kph.
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Ayuso and Romo make it to the bottom of the descent with 50″ gap back to the chasers led by Landa with 15km to go.
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Ayuso moves up to second in the KoM standings thanks to his six points taken on that final climb.
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KoM (Collada de Brenes)
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20km to go
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Landa attacks the chase group with Markel Beloki (EF Education-EasyPost) following. Castrillo, Dunbar, Soler and Abel Balderstone (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) all able to follow as Pickering is caught by them.
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The chase group are only 34″ behind the leaders as well and there is over 20km to go once over the top of the climb.
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Rolland is coming across the gap ever so slowly to Ayuso and Romo. Can the French former winner of the Piccolo Il Lombardia get back to the leaders?
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Brieuc Rolland is now trying to kick across to Ayuso and Romo.
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Ayuso is looking a bit ragged but is still pushing. Romo riding well with him as Pickering and Rolland are starting to lose a little more time now with 2km to the top.
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Meanwhile, back in the peloton that are over 5 minutes back, Ben Tulett leads the Visma-Lease a Bike train with Matteo Jorgenson, Sepp Kuss and Jonas Vingegaard as a solid tempo.
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It has been a very impressive day in the saddle from Javier Romo and his Movistar teammates.
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Romo bridges across to Ayuso again with Pickering and Rolland not too far off the young rider from Barcelona.
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Attack in break
⚡️ Soler launches Ayuso! Romo is the only one who sticks with him!
🌪 ¡Ayuso ataca y sólo Romo puede seguirle!
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Soler’s pace in the chase is dragging back the leading trio and is splitting the bunch he leads as well.
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Pickering joins Shaw and Rolland at the front of the race wuth Sheffied trying to bridge back across.
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Pedersen is finally dropped by the Soler led chase group and they are not far away from the leaders now at all with 4km to the top of the climb.
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The important stats of the climb…
😮💨 The great climb of the day has arrived!🤗 ¡Llega el gran puerto del día!⚡️𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐀 𝐃𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐒⚡️🏔1️⃣↔️ 7 km📈 7,9%⚠️ 16%#LaVuelta25 pic.twitter.com/aRdy1AJZ5WSeptember 4, 2025
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James Shaw goes clear in the front of the race as Sheffield continues his pace. Rolland pings across the gap like it is nothing.
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Q36.5, Bahrain Victorious and UAE Team Emirates-XRG come to the front of the peloton and are blocking Visma-Lease a bike from the front as they look to protect their leaders.
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Herrada now goes to the front of the chase group for Cofidis, interestingly.
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The gap to the six laders is falling again with 35″ splitting them. There are some strong climbers at the front and this will not be easy for Ayuso and co to close.
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Multiple riders drop out of the chase group as Soler hits the front with Ayuso on his wheel. Pedersen on his wheel and looking very strong for the moment.
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30km to go
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The race is about to head onto the final climb of the day, the 7km long Collada de Brenes which has an average of 7.9% gradient with the leaders having 31″ on the Soudal-QuickStep led chase group.
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Victor Guernalec (Arkea-B&B Hotels) makes it across to the leaders to make it six riders at the front. And the Groupama-FDJ rider is actually Brieuc Rolland and not Rudy Molard.
🏁- 32 km | Stage 1️⃣2️⃣ – Etapa 1️⃣2️⃣
🚨 Six riders open up a gap in the break | 6 corredores cogen ventaja en la fuga
🇫🇷 Brieuc Rolland
🇫🇷 Victor Guernalec
🇬🇧 Finlay Pickering
🇬🇧 James Shaw
🇬🇧 Magnus Sheffield
🇩🇪 Michel Hessmann
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Hessmann, Sheffield, Pickering, Shaw and Rudy Molard (Groupama-FDJ) get a small gap on the rest of the break.
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Movistar are going all in for a stage today as Hessmann pushes hard on the front again and forces a split.
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Pedersen continued his effort after the intermediate sprint and has forced a major split but it does look like it is coming back together again.
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Intermediate sprint (Barrios)
1. Pedersen (DEN) Lidl-Trek 20pts
2. Liam Slock (BEL) Lotto 17pts
3. Fabio Christen (SUI) Q36.5 15pts
4. Stefan Küng (SUI) Groupama-FDJ 13pts
5. Gianmarco Garofoli (ITA) Soudal-QuickStep 10pts
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4km to the intermediate sprint in Barrios.
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More attacks come with Luca Van Boven (Inetermarche-Wanty) goes at over 100kph. The only rider of his team tried to go but nothing went and Kragh takes back control of the bunch again.
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Just under four and a half minutes split the break of 52 riders and the peloton led by Visma-Lease a Bike.
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Pedersen and Romo are quickly caught with Küng putting in a counter move but the Swiss TT star is also dragged back.
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Attack in break
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50km to go
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They’re on the unclassified climb now with Garcia just sitting off the front by about 5″ ahead of a bunch led by Kragh.
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Lidl-Trek look like they will try and take maximum points at the intermediate sprint with Kragh and Bernard working for Pedersen. They are 10km from Barrios, where the sprint point is held today.
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Garcia gets more of a gap and has about 20″ on the bunch. There is an unclassified climb coming up. It is 3.2km long with an average gradient of 6.3%.
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60km to go
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Attack in break
🏁 – 58 km | Stage 1️⃣2️⃣ – Etapa 1️⃣2️⃣
🔥 Ivan Garcia Cortina attacks and leaves the other breakaway riders in his dust! 4 other Movistar riders among them
👊 ¡Iván García Cortina se va en solitario! Tras él, 51 fugados en los que hay 4 corredores más de @movistarteam.com
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Visma-Lease a Bike are still setting the tempo in the peloton with two riders. UAE Team Emirates-XRG immediately behind them then Q36.5 after them. Vingegaard quite a few riders back.
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The break is so large with splits constantly opening up and being closed back together again as riders pull out of the line or try to force someone through.
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70km to go
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52 riders now together at the front of the race with two minutes on the peloton.
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That chase group is now 11 riders strong and are about 20″ off the back of the 40 man group. The peloton are 1’57” down.
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80km to go
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The gap finally is going out as expected on the flat between the two climbs. The break have 1’50” on the peloton.
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There are 42 riders at the front with 9 more coming across. They would make the leading group 51 riders strong. That would mean there would be two pelotons.
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Racing is back to normal today after the protests of yesterday…
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Mikel Landa (Soudal-QuickStep) is in the breakaway as is Bruno Armirail (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale). The Frenchman is the best placed rider at +8’27”.
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The break is really stretched out and splitting thanks to the pace set by Hessmann but not a big enough gap to form a new group just yet.
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Visma-Lease a Bike are just setting the pace they want on the ascent and descent and it will all be obvious what the race situation is when the riders get to the flat.
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100km to go
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KoM (Puerto de Alisas)
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Romo now pushes on solo and is trying to thin this break out.
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Javier Romo (Movistar), Michiel Hessmann (Movistar) and Alec Segaert (Lotto) tried to get a gap but the group behind is chasing hard.
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Crash!
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The peloton finally allow a minute of a gap up to the break that are said to be around 40 riders in number.
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Lars Craps (Lotto) attacks the peloton as he tries to join the break of almost 40 riders but the peloton aren’t letting anyone else go.
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Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious) is dropped again. He is having an awful race and is clearly struggling.
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Visma-Lease a Bike now take control of the peloton and are setting a solid tempo on the front with Dylan van Baarle controlling things.
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Roughly 35 riders in the breakaway now with 36″ on the peloton.
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Ayuso, Buitrago, Pablo Castrillo (Movistar) all comes across to the break with multiple others and Soler immediately hits the front to pace.
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This is chaos. Riders all over the road with several groups up the road but also riders off the back as well including Ben O’Connor (Jayco-AlUla).
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Several more riders going up the road out of the peloton. This is utter carnage as Ayuso and Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) leading this counter move to join the 22 riders up the road.
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12 riders get a gap on the peloton led by Ayuso with Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) also involved.
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Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) launches in the peloton with Soudal-QuickStep), XDS-Astana and Bahrain Victorious all involved but Movistar are dragging it back as they are happy with the race situation having Canal and Hessmann up the road.
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Onto the Puerto de Alisas go the riders with just 20″ on the peloton. Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) is leading the break at the moment. However, XDS-Astana are chasing behind to try and get the gap small enough to bridge.
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The weather looks a bit gloomy but the pace is anything but. Rapid racing so far with the average speed over 50kph.
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The break of 22 riders has 15″ on the peloton as they are about to start the first climb of the day.
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Pickering (TBV), Guernalec (ARK), Denz (RBH) and Christen (Q36) join the leading group.
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There’s now 22 riders up the road with about 10″ on the peloton.
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Break:
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18 riders get a gap on the peloton.
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Another move is made with a small gap once again. It is a tough ask to form this break as Lidl-Trek and Q36.5 may want to control for potential stage wins for Pidcock and Mads Pedersen.
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The bunch is still intact after 20km of racing. It is a very intriguing start. If the break hasn’t gone by the Alisas climb it could be a very tough ascent for some of the riders built more for flat.
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130km to go
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The start of the climb is only 20km away from the riders now. The Puerto de Alisas is 8.6km long with an average gradient of 5.8%.
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After that brief flurry of attacks in the peloton it has all calmed down again with the bunch rolling along. Average speed so far is 55kph, so they are not hanging around.
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Just 8km in and the break are caught yet again.
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The group is brought back with a break of 16 riders getting a tiny gap on the pack.
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Two riders have a small gap on the peloton.
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It is a big chance for riders who may want to go into the day’s break today, so the start is being rather cagey.
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No moves going away early on.
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The start was slightly delayed due to a mechanical for one of the riders.
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144.9km to go
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Neutral start
📍𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐎☺️ Stage 1⃣2⃣ neutral start!🙌 ¡Salida neutralizada para la etapa 1⃣2⃣ !#LaVuelta25 pic.twitter.com/aRcHBJsM3ISeptember 4, 2025
2025-09-04T11:53:13.437Z
The weather is rather moody looking today in Laredo.
📍𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐎 😍😍😍 #LaVuelta25
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Yesterday was the first time that Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) has looked under pressure with Tom Pidcock (Q36.5) managing to distance the race leader. However, the red jersey was able to get back to the Yorkshireman both times.
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2025-09-04T11:48:14.830Z
The main talking point yesterday was, of course, the protests. The stage was cancelled with no stage winner. We have several news stories on our website with all the reaction and statements from riders, teams, the race and the UCI. Find one of the articles below…
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2025-09-04T11:43:13.136Z
Sign on is well underway with the neutral start coming in about 15 minutes in Laredo.
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2025-09-04T11:40:55.243Z
The day starts in Laredo and makes it’s way to Los Corrales de Buelna over a distance of 143.9km. It could be a reduced sprint from either the break or peloton. Perhaps a solo break can get away to victory.
2025-09-04T11:39:25.162Z
Today’s stage looks like an ideal day for the breakaway with two categorised climbs on the menu. However, they are around 70km apart on what is a largely flat stage aside from that.
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¡Hola! And welcome to the Cyclingnews’ live report of stage 12 at La Vuelta 2025.