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Hard to predict this one. Tough day, but lots of flattish roads between the mountains, so expect it hard for an attacker to stay away. Maybe another massive breakaway day?

PREDICTION: Big fight for the breakaway, maybe 20+ riders get away. Gregoire and Kron again get narrowly beated by a better climber - maybe Bardet.

I think he's lost enough time already to not be marked, but surely he won't have the legs to win even if he got into the break.

POST RACE EDIT: Well this was a bad call!

Hmm, a decent prediction for the day, but I think I now predict that this overall prediction is wrong.

Kuss must now be favourite to win overall. Hard to see Roglic or Vingegaard attacking to take it off him, and he looks stronger than anyone else. (As well as having a tidy advantage.)

Still plenty of racing to go, and it is far from a certainty, bpt it seems the most likely scenario.

You know it's been a hard stage when 26th place is over 22 minutes down!

I'm so looking forward to today. Hard to see anything but a pure GC shakeup, possibly with GC-rider attacks on one of the two early climbs.

I'm not sure who it will be, but I predict the winner today wins the Vuelta.

Something different today (stage 5) at least!

Yeah, I've not watched much of it, but doesn't seem to have been particularly interesting.

Hopefully the weekend stages will have some good racing.

Four wins out of four for Kooij so far, looking good to wrap up the remaining two sprint stages as well.

Can anyone challenge van Aert over the weekend?

Good to see Kron and Gregoire up there again, but a well deserved win from Herrada.

I'm going to go Ganna for the win.

The race is beautifully poised going into the time-trial. Evenepoel, Roglic, Vingegaard and Ayuso are very close together and should all put in strong time trials. Kuss, Soler Martinez will probably drop a couple of minutes to join them.