Fair enough, I'll do that, no probs.

Great win for Nick Roche............his dad will be ever so proud

Uran must surely be SKY team Leader after Henao's disaster yesterday

Henao lost over two minutes.............that final climb really sorted them out

Nibali takes the leaders jersey

Roche has the points and mountain jerseys

Today is flat most of the way but with a category 3 climb at the finish which might just be too tough for the out and out sprinters and might suit someone like Gilbert.............that kind of rider

Before they reach the finish town they go to an island off the coast.........it's looks quite a way off the coast on the map, don't know whether there's a bridge or a causeway..........looking at the map it appears that they might have to take a boat !.............

Underway on ES...............76K to go, 5 man break up the road

2 minutes and 10 seconds

Henderson in the break again

nice and sunny..............it's a beautiful country is Spain

Sean Kelly has arrived to take up the commentary after he was riding in some event at the weekend...........Brian Smith has been jocked off

Well, he has the consolation that his team, NetApp/Endura are doing a lot better this year than Sean's team An Post.

Marvellous stage yesterday with coastal winds, crashes, split peloton into about 4 groups..............finally all got back together just before the finish

The oldest man in the race, Chris Horner, took his chance on the short but fairly sharp last climb whilst the 'big guns' were marking each other............he won by a few seconds but with the time bonus he goes into the leaders jersey

Some tricky climbs today, short but very steep in parts for short ramps. It's up and down all the way but there's a fair run in and only a short ramp at the finish..........could be a chance for a sprinter?

The boys on ES think it's a leg-breaker today with all the short, sharp climbs

There's only one categorised climb, and that's only a category 3..............they're saying that's a real stinker, up t 30%, but it's short, hence the category

I still think there might be time for the sprinters to get back...........we'll see !

52K to go, break has about 4 minutes

28% climb! That was brutal!

That climb looked really steep on the stage profile...........but it only looked really short. I'm sure it was several kilometres long, much worse than it looked on the profile !

And the final little climb to the finish line was also quite a long climb............the sprinters stood no chance

That climb was in a race earlier this year where they had to go up it a number of times never seen so many riders off and pushing

Think they jocked the wrong one off

Trotty has just finished 3rd on stage 6 of a women's stage race in France. Seems to be her best result since she went road racing

Morena won yesterdays stage in Spain and after 1 day with Horner, Nibali gets the leaders jersey back...........I don't suppose he really wants it just now this early in the race

Another stage in the Vuelta today that the organisers are calling a stage for sprinters, but Sean says that it doesn't look like one for sprinters to him !

If anything it looks hillier than yesterday but with a more sprint-friendly finish

it's raining................

the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain...........they're on the big climb at the moment though............

Fantastic finish on the Vuelta today. Watch the highlights if you missed it.

Willing Martin on there, that was one of the rides of the decade. Felt a bit empty after it.

Fantastic stuff. Another race starting tomorrow, the World Ports Classic which I seem to remember is a two-day stage race finishing in Rotterdam and Antwerp, so a sprinters' benefit.

Bad luck for Tony Martin!

Good practice for the time trial though..

That 2 day race Amsterdam/Rotterdam is on ES now

I've noticed though, like a lot of races on ES this year..........they're not showing the whole race live

No live coverage of the final day tomorrow

Eurosports coverage is not in the same league as ITV's they give great inside and background storys and chat with the winners and riders
Eurosports coverage has gone right down the tubes with very poor content involved

Quite exciting racing over in Holland

Something happened a little while ago, looks like the peloton might have taken a wrong course............as a result the gap to the break went up from just over a minute to four minutes with 40k to go

all hell broke loose............it's only a 2 day race geared for 2 sprint finishes so the sprinters teams put the hammer down to try and catch the break and the peloton stated splitting up. There's also some wind on the flat countryside

37K to go now

I would have to say it is the finest ride in a grand tour I have ever seen in 30yrs of watching them

Just not quite fine enough, sadly.

the commentator has just said it is on live tomorrow at 1pm but it's not listed on the ES website TV schedule, so we'll see if it comes on or not !

Looks like the UK have got darts! It'll probably sneak into the schedule on Tuesday morning. Two good races today, that impossible finish into Rotterdam and Phllipe Gilbert losing out once again, looks like he is doomed to go his whole world champions year without a single win.