La Vuelta - Stage 18, Its not the Angliru, its the Angliru's angry cousin

It's a brute...

I see s few specks of rain on the camera lens. This could make things interesting. They descend off the top of the Corbetoria and then loop around to do El Cordal before coming back up the Corbetoria the way they descended and turning at the top for the the last 6km to the top of the Gamoniteiro. The Corbetoria descent is lightning fast but pretty wide. The Cordal is a different kettle of fish. Narrow, twisty, loads of shade, leaves on the road. Nibali crashed on it a couple of years ago leading into the Angliru. Contador launched his attack half way down and carried on to win his last ever race. If someone gets clear there it could be great craic.

Michael Storer and Thyman Arensman were doing a great job of protecting Roman Bardet's lead in the KOM classification... until Storer accumulated more points than Bardet 😂

This race has been insane since the first stage.

This final climb will be insane with the pace that's been on for most of the day.

I wonder if Bardet is planning to go for the stage win. Very surprised he wasn't in the breakaway.

Well, that didn't last long

Anybody know the reason why Roglic is wearing what looks like a miner's helmet with the piece on the front?

Carlton's word of the day - 'Exponentially'

26kmh on a 10% gradient. Jesus christ

Wild horses roaming in the background there; expecting goats, brown bears and a few vampires in the final 2km....

gcn player acting up big time here

that was class - almost zero visibility at the top. That's one climb I won't be putting on the bucket list.

The poor lads in the autobus will have some job getting up there unhindered; surely bump into the others coming down? Insane bit of road

There was a rather large truck parked about 500m from the line, I’d say the engine is burnt out from getting up that far.