Jay VINE. 10 and praise. Another podium for the Australian kangaroo from UAE Emirates, who brings his personal victories to two in this Vuelta, three if we consider the team time trial, the fourth in his career at the Vuelta, which is clearly his hunting ground. For the Emirates team, these are four stages and 77 seasonal victories. For the 29-year-old Australian rider, this is his fifth victory in Spain out of 11 won in his career. He has the mountain jersey of the race and proves it today: he enters the breakaway, makes a selection, breaks free from Castrillo, the last to resist him, and arrives alone at the finish line. The mustachioed UAE rider is satisfied, satisfied and serene: it couldn't be otherwise.

Pablo CASTRILLO. 8. The 24-year-old Spanish rider had not shown tangible signs of his presence until now. After leaving Kern Pharma, he had not maintained his promises this season, but today he puts on a stage performance like a true gladiator. Already three valuable placements in this Vuelta, to shout to everyone: watch out, I'm here!

Javier ROMO. 7.5. Movistar was very active today, and the 24-year-old Spaniard completes the podium with Castrillo.

Archie RYAN. 7. The Irish Australian finishes there, a step away from the podium, but his race is worthy of applause.

Tom PIDCOCK. 7.5. Solid and reactive. When the race explodes, he's there with the dynamiters.

Giulio CICCONE. 6.5. Suffers a lot today and at a certain point is forced to leave the best group. Tries to catch his breath, tries to find his pace and in the end comes back and manages a complex situation.

Matteo JORGENSON. 8. He's Vingegaard's shadow, but shows himself very well.

Jay HINDLEY. 6.5. Same as what I said for Ciccone, and with Giulio he returns to the heart of the race.

Junior LECERIF. 7. The 22-year-old from Halle is replacing Mikel Landa brilliantly. He's the one making the classification in this Vuelta for Soudal, and he's one of the most beautiful surprises. Today he gains three positions, although he's still fourteenth.

Joao ALMEIDA. 8. Makes the team work, then he's the only one who tries, with a couple of powerful accelerations, things the Portuguese never did in the past. Races like a leader and isn't afraid to do so. When he moves, he hurts, very badly, but Vingegaard, Riccitello, Jorgenson, and a great Pidcock don't let him go for a meter. But he must be recognized for at least trying.

Jonas VINGEGAARD. 8. Races with absolute calm, great clarity, without wasting physical or nervous energy. Controls and returns to red.

Matthew RICCITELLO. 7. The 23-year-old American races with attention. He never gives the impression of being able to break the world, nor of giving up at any moment. Solid.

Giulio PELLIZZARI. 6.5. Never leaves his captain Hindley: where the Australian goes, the man from Marche is there. Hindley returns to the Vingegaard and Almeida group? Giulio is there too.

Felix GALL. 5. A stage of relationship, not long but leg-breaking, and for once the Austrian doesn't break, but bends.

Egan BERNAL. 5. The Colombian has lost the confidence and brilliance of the first days. He puts in a lot of heart today, but his legs are no longer what they used to be.

Lorenzo FORTUNATO. 5.5. He knows he must struggle, he knows he has to spit out his soul, but the XDS Astana rider is not afraid to fight, until the end.

Nicola CONCI. 6.5. The 28-year-old from Trento of XDS Astana remains at the front with eight other adventure companions, before the race explodes.

Julien BERNARD. 6.5. The 33-year-old Lidl-Trek rider has the merit of staying in the heart of the race with eight adventure companions. With him Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) with Pablo Castrillo and Javier Romo (Movistar), Archie Ryan (EF Education-EasyPost) and Alec Segaert (Lotto), Xabier Mikel Azparren (Q36.5) and Nicola Conci (XDS Astana) plus Abel Balderstone (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA). It's from this action, from this group, that Vine's final move is born.

Matteo SOBRERO. 6.5. It wasn't easy to get away, it took many attacks, several accelerations, several kilometers. At a certain point, however, an assorted group formed. With the 28-year-old Piedmontese from Red Bull, his teammate Ben Zwiehoff, and with them Mikkel Bjerg and Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Julien Bernard (Lidl-Trek), Orluis Aular, Pablo Castrillo and Javier Romo (Movistar), Louis Vervaeke (Soudal-QuickStep) and Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), Bruno Armirail and Johannes Staune-Mittet (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Xabier Mikel Azparren and David Gonzalez (Q36.5), Harold Tejada, Nicola Conci and Fausto Masnada (XDS Astana), Rudy Molard (Groupama-FDJ), Abel Balderstone, Joel Nicolau and Jakub Otruba (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), Pierre Thierry (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Gijs Leemreize and Kevin Vermaerke (PicNic PostNL), Lars Craps and Alec Segaert (Lotto) plus Pier-André Côté (Israel-PremierTech). To these, at a later moment, three more riders will join: Junior Lecerf (Soudal-QuickStep), Sean Quinn and Archie Ryan (EF Education-EasyPost), they are 30. A nice big group, which will obviously thin out.