La Vuelta Ciclista a España 2025 Stage 10

September 2, 2025 The past few days have followed the Ebro River North and West but today we see a departure as the race moves directly North and finishes on the French border at El Ferial Larra Belagua. After leaving the Nature Park in Sendaviva, the first 120KM of the 175KM stage is relatively straightforward. There are a few smaller climbs but the first test comes when the bunch reaches Navascués in Navarre for the Alto de las Coronas, a 7.5KM climb at just under 5%. The race continues toward France through the intermediate sprint in Isaba with 22KM to go. A false flat uphill valley road takes the riders to the base of the 9.4KM climb which averages 6%. El Ferial Larra Belagua is a bit tougher than what we saw on Sunday and could be more selective as well if raced hard from the bottom. The first half of the stage was rapid, averaging over 50KM/HR. A crash with 119KM to go took down Matteo Jorgenson of Visma-Lease a Bike, Harold Martín López of XDS-Astana and others. Unfortunately for Arkéa-B&B Hotels, Raúl García Pierna had to abandon due to his injuries which is a real shame because he has been attacking and looking in very good form. With 90KM to go, there was still no break and the attacks were flying. On an uncategorized climb with 85KM to go, Andrea Bagioli of Lidl-Trek, Clément Braz Afonso of Groupama-FDJ, and Harold Tejada of XDS-Astana got a gap. Braz Afonso went to take a musette but it got wrapped on his handlebars and the young Frenchman hit the ground. He got up slowly and was able to remount and finish the race. With 71KM to go, a large group split off the front with at least 25 riders. Bahrain Victorious tried to get control but more riders were trying to shoot off the front to get up to the break. The break was finally established by the start of the Alto de las Coronas with 55KM to go but their lead was just 1 minute 25 seconds to the bunch. Javier Romo of Movistar attacked out of the group with 4.5KM to go and went over the top just a few seconds ahead of Jay Vine of UAE-XRG and a handful of others that split away from the main break. Vine caught up with Romo and the pair rode together until 38KM to go when a chase group containing Pablo Castrillo of Movistar, Xabier Azparren of Q36.5, Abel Balderstone of Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, Julien Bernard of Lidl-Trek, Nicola Conci of XDS-Astana, and Archie Ryan of EF-Education EasyPost made contact to form a lead group of eight. Alec Segaert of Lotto managed to bridge up to the front on the false flat valley road with around 30KM to go. Kevin Vermaerke of Picnic-PostNL spent a lot of energy but he was also able to join the front group with 25KM to go, just 12KM before the final climb to the finish with a lead of 3 minutes back to the peloton. Segaert needed to get a head start before the climb if he wanted any chance of a result so with 20KM to go, he attacked the leaders and used his time trialing ability to build a 40 second gap by the bottom with 9.4KM to go. After 1,500M of climbing, Castrillo attacked, caught and passed Segaert, and was off the front on his own. Vine got into his rhythm and hauled back the bobbing figure of Castrillo with 5.5KM to go. Vine put in an acceleration with 500M later which distanced Castrillo and the Austrialian sailed to his second victory of the race. Castrillo came across the line 35 second later with Romo in third place. In the peloton, Juan Ayuso shrugged off media criticism and was driving the pace for João Almeida and the Spaniard had cut the bunch down to 20 riders very quickly. Ayuso pulled of as Mikkel Bjerg was coming back from being in the large break. Bjerg rode really hard for abut 700M which dropped race leader Torstein Træen of Bahrain Victorious. Almeida lifted the pace when Bjerg pulled off and with 6KM to go, the group was down to seven riders. With 5KM to go, Jorgenson was still there for Vingegaard and the American started setting the pace in the group which included just Almeida, Vingegaard, Tom Pidcock of Q36.5, and Matthew Riccitello of Israel-Premier Tech. Under Jorgenson's pace, a few other GC riders were able to come back and the group stayed together to the finish line without any more serious attacks. Træen finished 1 minute 3 seconds after the Vingegaard group which drops him to second overall at 26 seconds. The rest of the GC remained mostly the same with the exception of Egan Bernal and Lorenzo Fortunato who both lost a bit of time but remain in the hunt for a top 10 overall.