The finish of stage seven wasn’t quite as exciting as the finish of stage six. It wasn’t bad though. The world champion who can’t win a race, Phil Gilbert, and the two-time cyclocross world champion who can, Zdenek Stybar, hovered a few seconds in front of the peloton for the last 9km and thanks to a route with more roundabouts than Milton Keynes, managed to just about stay away. Stybar won the two-man sprint by the width of a Schwalbe
General classification
Dan Martin fell off and lost 1m32s. He then went to hospital and I’m not sure whether he’ll continue.
Stage eight
I promised you summit finishes in the Vuelta. They’re back. Here’s the profile.
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