What an amazing climb through the mountain mists to Lagos de Covadonga. 12 km with long stretches of 15% gradient. The breakaway (including big names like Piepoli, Menchov, Sastre, Pereiro, Beltran) from the big breakaway (of 39 riders) was really powerful ; but Vladimir Efimov (Caisse de Epargne) just rode so well and noone could touch him. Perfect timing and lovely style. Nice to see a young and lesser known rider not only win but take the amarillo jersey too.
And a really gutsy ride by Cadel Evans running on empty but coming in 7th (after yesterday's 8th) to put him in 7th at 1:28 in the General!