Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stღage 16 of the Vuelta a Espa&ntild🉐e;a.

A look at the map🍒 for today's stage, which is largely flat for most of the day as the riders wind inland in Andalucía towards Tomares.

So far two more rid🍌ers have left the race ahead of today's stage.

Lotto Soudal's Maꦆxim Van Gils tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, while EF Education-EasyPost have just announced that Esteban Chaves is a DNS without stating a reason.

A reminder of the s𓆉tage 15 results and the GC picture heading into todayﷺ's stage.

Remco Evenepoel remains in the red jersey with a strong lead over Primož Roglič. The GC battle is unlikely to ignite on the closing hills of today's stage.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Evenepoel said yesterday that he's recovering from his 🎶crash injuries, though warned that 'danger lurks around every corner' in the final week

On Sunday, Evenepoel shed 15 seconds to Roglič, having lost 48 seconds the previous day. Up the road, meanwhile, Thymen Arensman was on the way to a breakaway stage victory.

Catch up with what went down on stage 15 here

20 minutes to go until the riders roll out to start toda🐼y's stage.

Could the Vuelta a España still unravel for Remco Evenepoel?

Belgian a strongꦆ leader, but the third week iౠs still unknown territory as a GC contender

A look at to🎃day's final. A couple of small hills𒅌 that shouldn't put off the versatile fastmen like Pedersen, Coquard, Wright and Ackermann who contested the finish on stage 13.

There's another larger hill at 10km to go which might provide a springboard for a late💯 attack or one last jump from the breakaway, too.

Ayuso believes GC is yet to be fully decided in Vuelta a España

Youngest rider in Vuelta continues to🌌 🐼punch above weight with fourth place overall

The peloton has rolled to begi🌠n the꧋ neutral zone now. 15 minutes of that before the flag drops.

189km to go

The flag drops and stage 16 is underway!

An🏅der Okamika (Burgos-BH) y Luis Angel Maté (Euskaltel-Euskadi) are on the att𒈔ack early on.

It looks like the peloton is letting🅘 this two-man 🅷breakaway go straight away.

180km to go

Yep, the pair have th♛ree minutes and counting. That was a thr💮illing start to the stage!

Trek-Segafredo control theꦫ peloton on behalf of 🍸green jersey Mads Pedersen.

We have fou﷽r hours o✱f this to go... No climbs on today's stage to liven things up.

The gap is now up to 3:45 as Mat💞é and ꧟Okamika press on.

174km to go

Cofidis are also working at the front of the bunch along with Trek-Segafredo. The French team will be wo🏅rking for Bryan Coquard today.

An early mechanical problem for Mads Pedersen, who is 🌄back in the peloton 💦in no time.

168km to go

Just under four minutes for the break now.

162km to go

A look at the breakaway riders, 𝓡who now have 3:3📖5 on the peloton.

Today's stage is the first one in the break for 38🐻-year-old 🌄Maté.

He's racing to plant trees in a natural park in Andaluc&iacu🎃te;a, with every kilometre he puts in the break equalling one tree planted. Vuelta organisers and his Euskaltel-Euskadi team are also backing the initiative.

Read the full story here in our interview with Maté at the recent Arctic Race of Norway.

148km to go

Maté and Okamika have 3:25 now.

A lot of Grand Tour wins between these two – Primož Roglič and Chris Froome chat in the peloton.

137km to go

Trek-Segafredo and Cofidis still c꧅ontrol the peloton. The breakaway continues at 3:30.

Relegation watch: White says 'system needs an overhaul' as BikeExchange miss out in Baltimore

EF Education-EasyPost, 🥂Israel-Premier Tech make gains in Maryland Cycling Classic

The other half of the b♍reakaway, Ander Okamika, has been out front three times already in this Vuelta, on stages 3, 4, and 13.

A look at the peloton during today's pretty q𓃲uiet st📖age.

How to watch the 2022 Vuelta a España – live TV and streaming

Evenepoel leading in battle against Rogl🅰ic, Mas, Rodríguez, Ayuso, Almeida, L&oa𓄧cute;pez

Feeding time for the riders.

120km to go

Still the breakaway rides along 3:ꦑ25 up on the peloton.

This is what green jersey wearer and stag༺e 13 winner Mads Pedersen had🍬 to say about today's stage...

"I think they did the finale in 2017 or 2018, so of course we watched the last kilometres. It's a trick🍬y finale with a good kick in there, so hopefully it suits me well.

"As I said before, you can't sit back and 🤪just enjoy, you have to get as many points as possible [for the green jersey]. Everyday we keep fighting to get more and more points, and then hopefully I can still have it on Sunday in Madrid."

Average speed of 37.6kph so far.

105km to go

The riders are about 10 minutes slower than the slowest predi🐎c⭕ted schedule so far...

A look at Cofid🍌is in charge at the head of the peloton today.

The gap from break to peloton is still around 3:30 as the 🐬riders head into the fin♍al 100km of the stage.

Vincenzo Nibali linked with consultancy role at Doug Ryder's new team

'The inte🍸ntion is to stay in cycling' Italian says on final Vuelta

90km to go

The gap heads under💞 three minutes for the first time as the pelot🥀on up the pace a little.

80km to go

Another few seconds off t🍬he⛎ gap as it goes down to 2:20.

Here's another photo because nothing is going on in th🧸e race...

Okamika and Maté still working well to🦂gether at the front.

Zwift finally launches its own turbo trainer, but it's not the Tron bike we expected

Zwift Hub is a direct drive sma⛦rt trainer aimed at simplifying the Zwift setup experience

68km to go

Just over two minutes for the two leaders now.

Mat&eacꦛute; has spent almost 120km in the break today, so 120 trees planted.

It's still Cofidis, Tཧrek-Segafredo, and Movistar up at the front of the peloton.

60km to go

Two minutes for the🌜 break. The peloton won't be looking to make the catch 🍌for a while yet though.

Race leader Remco Evenepoel 🌺safe in the peloto♒n so far.

52km to go

The gap is still stable. Nothing changing at🍃 the moment.

ඣThe peloton is lined 🌼out at the moment, though the pace isn't super high.

All flat roads at the moment untౠil the riders reach the hills inside the finalꩲ 15km.

The two breakaway m📖en race on during another hot day out atꦕ the Vuelta.

40km to go

1:50 for the two leaders.

The last time the Vuelta visited Tomares brought this exact same finish in 2017 with Matteo Trentin taking the victory ahead of Gianni Moscon and Søren Kragh Andersen. You can read the stage report of that day here

32km to go

Trek-Segafredo and Cofidis continue to lead the pel꧑oton...

The gap between the 🐷two breakaway men and the peloton is down to a minute now.

It🍨's all about waiting for the catch now as the break approaches t꧃he intermediate sprint.

Maté and Okamika go heಞad-to-head at the sprint point.

28km to go

Maté takes it while𝓰 Tr🃏ek-Segafredo lead out Pedersen to grab a few extra points back in the peloton.

Pederse♉n took 15 points there. He's has a huge lead of the points competition.

20km to go

The peloton has closed to within 40 seconds now.

I🗹t's still the same mix of teams lead🐠ing the way at the moment.

16km to go

17 seconds now.

14km to go

Only a few seconds left now. Iꦦt's almost over for Okamika and Maté.

And they're caught. No late attacks ꦦto try and secure the combativity prize.

BikeExchange-🌳Jayco join the teams at the front of the pe♏loton.

Around 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:176 trees planted thanks to Maté's time in the break today.

13km to go

Ibai 🧔Azurmendi (Euskaltel-Euskadi) goes on the attack.

The riders are on the u♍nclassified climb before the final run-in. Azurmendi continues to push on.

Azurmendi𓃲 is brought back beforeﷺ the top of the hill.

11km to go

QuickStep-AlphaVi⭕nyꦺl also up there at the head of the peloton. Alpecin-Deceuninck are there too.

A fast pace now ♚as the peloton heads down and towards the final two small hills at🍌 the finish.

8km to go

Ineos Grenadiers have moved up front.

A puncture for Kaden Groves a🌌t a terrible time for the BikeExchange-Jayco sprinter.

6km to go

Bora-Hansgrohe join the fray aꦚt the front of the peloton.

Now Jumbo-Visma move up, too.

Not the widest roads here so not a lot of spa❀ce up front as the riders head into t🐎he town.

Jumbo, Ineos, Trek, Arkéa all represen𒁏ted up front.

4km to go

A🌠lpecin-Deceuninck also up there for Merlier. UAE there for Ackermann as well. All lined out at the f🌊ront.

3km to go

Uphill now and a high speed at the front.

Coquard, Pedersen, Wright, Ackerma🔯nn &nd🐈ash; all the major favourites are up towards the front.

Jumbo-Visma push on! Primož Roglič at 2.7km to go!

Roglič with an ambush move! Ackermann chases him.

There's a gap between th🐓e two and Pedersen beh♊ind. Remco Evenepoel has a puncture!

This is brutal for Evenepoel...

The Bꦅelgian has stopped at the side of the✤ road for help.

Roglič has four men with him.

Evenepoel will get the same time as the peloton given the 3km rule here꧃.

1km to go

Roglič has Pedersen, Ackermann, Wright, and Van Poppel with him.

A five-ma🍰n group to fight for victory on th𓃲e last uphill run.

Roglič leads it into the final 500 metres.

Pedersen in second wheel.

Ackermann, Van Poppel, Wright behind.

Pedersen blasts past Roglič on the closing straight!

And Roglič crashes in the sprint! Wow.

A very hectic finish.

Pedersen takes the win!

Pedersen celebrates with his teammates.

The peloton didn't finish much further behind the lead group. Both Evenepoel and Roglič will get the time of the group they were with.

Roglič went down hard on his left-hand side and has cuts to his arm and blood over his leg.

Evenepoel rolls in at over three minutes down buಌt he'll get the same time as t🌠he group which finished at just eight seconds down on the leaders.

So after all that, Roglič will have gained eight seconds on Evenepoel.

The helicopter view showed Roglič moving out the way as Pedersen went through. He swung back in and collided with Wright at the rear of the lead group.

Mads Pedersen celebrates his stage win.

Here's what Evenepoel said after the stage...

"A puncture on my rear wheel. I wasn't in the best position because we did a recon of the final yesterday, and we felt the roads were slippery. I was scared in the last 5km so I lost some positions and I wanted to move up on a steep bump, but my rear wheel just went off, so I felt I had a flat tyre. I'm happy that the 3km rule exists otherwise I would've lost a lot of time today. I heard that Primož crashed so I really hope that he's OK and that he can continue the race.

"We all know that Primož is really explosive and that a final like this is made for him. That makes it even more a pity for him that he crashed. You never want somebody to crash so I hope he's OK.

"I felt recovered. I really needed the rest day, I✃ think. Because of my crash I had some soreness in my muscles, so the rest day was really welcome. I felt much better today than I did on Saturday and even on Sunday, so it looks pretty good for the rest of the week."

Roglič finishing the stage following his crash.

Here's what🌳 stage winner Pedersen💧 had to say after the finish...

"Everyone was working really hard today aꩲnd I promised Kirsch to win today. He had a daughter yesterday and he wasn't there for the birth so the whole team worked really hard to give this second present in a few days. This win is for Alex aဣnd his wife and new kid.

"It was a really smart move [from Roglič]. Everyone was really on the limit. Ackermann was straight in his wheel, a really good job. I had to use a lot of energy to close it. It was a really good move.

"I didn't hear it. I wanted to go to him here and I saw he was with destroyed clothing. It's a pity that he crashed. He hasn't been lucky this year. I hope it isn't too bad so he can continue competing for the victo🔥ry💖 of the Vuelta."

Despite some confusion after the stage, Evenepoel will continue in red tonight, having lost eight seconds to Roglič.

A great shot of that final sprint, with Roglič on the tarmac in the background.

Take a look back at that final kilometre here.

The current GC standings in the 2022 Vuelta a España after stage 16

Evenepoel stays in the red jersey despite mechanical controversy and Roglič's final attack

Here's our report on today's stage and the action-packed finish.

Evenepoel in red tonight. His race lead over Roglič is down to 1:26 now.

Stage winner Pedersen remains in green. He has a 220-point lead ovওer second-placed Fred Wright.

With no climbs on today's stage, Jay Vine is still in the polka dot mountain jersey. His 59 points put him 29 cle✱ar of Richard Carapaz.

Finally, Evenepoel remains in ⛦white, 🔴4:49 up on Juan Ayuso.

Chaos on Vuelta stage 16 - Evenepoel retains lead while Roglic suffers finish line crash

Belgian 'happy that the 3km rule exists' after puncture, while offering sympathy to GC rival Roglič, who crashed