MONSTER CLIMB 🥵 | La Vuelta a España Stage 15 Final Kilometres | Eurosport Cycling

it's a 22 he's undiminished so indeed is rogich compared to all the other GC Men He indeed has just set sail here while it seems to be a a hole in the vessel of all of these guys can they find something and OK Conor is still battling brilliantly here but indeed to what cost and indeed to what end today 1.8 m kilometers I should say 1800 for Casto to bring this home and you know what I think he might just do it the gap's coming down though 15 seconds it's been chopped 16 he responds yet again what a finale Robbie incredible finale we see when Casto went a big attack that would have put his heart rate in the Red Zone before he hit the Steep gradients he kept opening up the Gap the others are claing their way back towards him Primos RIT though his attack was completely telegraphed lipitz on the radio RIT Took the Wheel they made the acceleration the problem for the others is you get on these gradients there's nothing you can do about it even if you know it's coming Ben o Conor followed he was straight in the wheel and went with him we've seen that over the previous week and he just he went over his own limits he's now dro the wheel he's battling on to try and save the Jersey but rogl he is on a mission as his this man Casto trying to hang on for his second stage when as the others are just sitting back there in the mid trying to just pull him back in well he looks behind sees the flare of the light he can't really catch who indeed is trying to catch him it's still COV with blof there I think blof believes that COV will try and close this and then try and mug everybody but right now Pablo cilo is got the whip hand sh this is remarkable piece of riding they are just inching back to him yes they are just uh back there but when you see them just in the distance like there's quite a few seconds on this deep Radiance uh it's so difficult to close down those just couple of meters there and it depend on Casto what he has got left in the tank also uh vas off he's just waiting a bit maybe he's waiting for the call from the DS as well to see what's happening behind but 1.4 km to go for a leader on the road it's still a long ways at this gradient well that was a Conor just at the back of that group you saw SE cus had already been distance as as well and still Casto grinds on 1400 M he's going to see the flam rou but the hurt doesn't stop it just continues the road does twist and turn around this mountain top but it could be that top dog is going to be Pablo Costo by the end of today oh that looked to me like vlasov was the nearest man to him through the Gloom we shall have to wait and see if he's rounded COV and it's starting to inroads here Robie Here Comes vlasov now he's left COV he's making his push and you look at the ticket to Primos RIT coming down but enrik M comes out of the Mist and starts riding back onto the wheel of rogl so the Spaniard although he had a bad day a few days ago he looks better now and Conor losing the wheel the me in front of him Keras Landa riding away from OK Conor and it looks like he's starting to just lose his grip on red or is he he's only 15 seconds behind rogl he may yet hang on for another day get those flags out of the way we don't want anything Tangled well he's unraveling everything but look at the man who's cominging out to him out of the Mist here blof has left seov behind 3 2 one vof he's going to come for this I can tell you it could be heartbreak for castrino just the flam Rouge awaits there is MK up alongside and now past Primos RIT and we look further back and you'll see that okona is still valiantly trying to fight into this Gap and it's Shellos is nearest the nearest man to him he's not that far behind however still bedeviled by Lando sits in front of him and there is the near stricken I should say pav COV who did so much work today this is pass and rogich behind it and here comes vas off and Casto knows he's there all he can do is carry on doing exactly what he's doing right now Sean yes well you just have to continue and he does look around a lot we see him a number of days ago as well looked around so many times again he's doing it here you just have to focus out in front and you know you have to just go close to the 100% And you know the finally kilometer now he looks like glass off is coming across but he's having difficulty just closing her down but on this gradient you know you close down just so slowly Big Ben is ringing here Ben o Conor and it's not toing against him he's doing a fantastic job of Defending that red jersey lass off now just coming up to castria but look at the face of vlasov if Casto looks round again and he's want to do so he's going to see a man in all kinds of torments but can vlass off deliver here Casto kicks again this is your 24% look at the grabbing on the side of your screen here this is where it hurts more than anywhere else in this entire race and they're equal to it just for now coming to a near stand still they dare not stop they have to beat this and beat each other that's the watch word Robbie it's just how much pain can you tolerate gradients like this every single fiber in your body is in agony 780 M to go there's still a couple of minutes of racing to come the blast sa shoulder and Casto he is a Never Say Die that is fabulous what a time to do that and yet again in this punishing incline well I'm inclined to think that vlasov may not have the bettering of this man Sean he's phenomenal he is yes well he doesn't give up and we've seen that already and uh yeah vas off you know coming across there but just yeah getting across slowly and that's what you've got to do on these steep gradients now we can see Blas off is the wheel there is he on the limit uh that is the question as he got a little bit more left to give here but this is going to be final 600 M we can see uh they just knocked it off looking at each other for the moment rock and roll for RIT Mass just has a little bit of a margin nothing too serious you understand but let's see if he can just extend this ever so slightly and what's happened to aonor he sitting at 22 seconds in a Reas of rogl at the moment here is our leader of the race on his own in the Gloom I think that's possibly Lander just up ahead of him and I imagine that Richard Kaz is there as well not necessarily in the pickers cilo kicks on oh fantastic well if you want to blow it has to be to the solar plexus and it's going to feel like that for vlasov here castria rounds the corner wide doesn't want to offer up anything at all in terms of a leading if he doesn't win this right now it's going to feel like a great deal of Cruelty but let's see shall we it is Casto just heading blast off and he's got a margin it's possibly two and a half bike lengths only as we come into the Gloom we practically lose sight of them for goodness sake likewise as RIT to the back wheel of mass who sails off RIT knows potentially that he's done a a big job today but quite frankly is it large enough oh this is fantastic Pablo Casto kicks again and it looks like he's going to make this sck flov hasn't given up though it's Toe to Toe it's like a ring fight oh vof almost tags one of the feet indeed of the barriers here and they're still rolling switch of camera on to hard wire so we're going to get this all the way to the end and this is Pablo Casto he took his debut of course the first pro win at this level uh just a couple of days ago he's going to not only underscore that he's going to basically enter a Pantheon of greats because this day has found out so many and we've found out that Pablo Casto is indeed a superstar we said there was a whiff of Hollywood about him well he's put on a phenomenal show today and there's nothing that vlasov can do about this look at it the Gap if anything is extending as we come to the line the crowd in full voice and the only thing that's got loud about Pao castrello is his legs there's going to be a breathless interview I imagine because they're given to that here in Spain right at the end of the line he's going to have nothing to say and you know what he doesn't have to because this performance has spoken volumes about the greatness of this man The Bravery of his team the entire setup Shao to that man that was an amazing delivery on the toughest of days wow wow it was right and uh you we did talk about on the the earlier slops when it did kick up he was looking like he was struggling but that his style of riding and you know maybe playing a bit as well you know not uh contributing anything uh and we can see here now you know there's going to be big gaps as we come in looked like that blov might be able to come back but he was also in the red no other pictures are available that's COV COV and now we wait Robbie for them to come out of the Gloom and it's a GC battle now well it won't be long now until we see enrik M because he' just ridden away from Primos rogich and rogl he was the real aggressor as they hit the steep slopes opened up a gap he's try to glor his way back now to enrik M who's had a brilliant day out all the rest are all not that far behind so we knew there's going to be a bit of a shuffle gaps open up but the gaps are minimal amongst the bestel morer there in the background so it's Mar rage skel morer has climbed past many on these steep slopes car pass and we're waiting for the red jersey well how long is it going to be and I've got a feeling that Ben Conor might hold on to Red today let us wait and see C is here now not that much longer oh the the visibility is practically zero here oh and we wait for the red jersey still we wait is it now not quite I think just with the motorcycles in a few moments time and here he comes B Conor crossing the line just behind godu what an amazing day of racing in this phenomenal event they can take a well earned rest but it's going to take them an aw long time to come down from the highs of what has been a quite remarkable day and what a winner yes well what a winner and uh what a fight by Ben o Conor there because it's around 40 seconds give or take three or 4 seconds so that is a great ride from him uh and we can see this man what a performance the way he attacked I was really concerned that he went so deep that when he go onto the Steep gradiance he'd be in difficulty but the way he fights and he fights with that and just kept on fighting all the way and FL of getting back to him I thought that was going to be the end but he just never gives up and gets the stage victory