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00:00 Under 600 metres to go and Vollering powers away.
00:03 Evita Musik trying to respond, trying to close that gap.
00:07 Evita Musik unleashing her sprint in the final few metres.
00:11 Evita Musik takes the win, beating red jersey Demi Vollering.
00:15 Yeah, it means a lot.
00:16 I often finish fourth, like in Flesch and also yesterday,
00:21 also last year in the two climbing stages in La Vuelta.
00:24 And I really want one big victory and now I have.
00:30 I think now I will be also more confident than me.
00:34 Evita Musik proved yesterday that Demi Vollering can be beaten in the mountains.
00:40 But the Dutchwoman still has a solid overall lead
00:43 as we head into the final weekend of La Vuelta Femenina 2024.
00:47 The GC battle should take a back seat today in the seventh stage,
00:51 which looks like one for the punchier sprinters.
00:53 Our green jersey wearer Mariana Vars is seeking her second stage victory of the week,
00:58 but so far we've had a different winner every day.
01:01 Today's profile looks pretty flat,
01:07 but there are over 1000 metres of climbing on the menu
01:10 once we leave San Este band de Gormaz.
01:13 Fatigue will also be setting in after six days of hard racing.
01:16 And the finish is by no means straightforward,
01:19 with a real kick up to the finish line in Siguenza.
01:26 A group of seven riders got into the day's breakaway,
01:28 but they were caught just before the live pictures began around halfway through the stage.
01:33 One of them was Anna Kiesenhofer,
01:35 and the Olympic champion decided to give it another go,
01:37 the peloton allowing the Austrian to open up a small gap.
01:41 The Brazilian champion Tota Magalhaes then set off in pursuit,
01:45 but she found it hard work bridging across to Kiesenhofer.
01:48 She eventually got some company,
01:51 with Flora Perkins, Georgie Howe, Anja Lowe, Laura Molinar and Karolina Vargas
01:56 making it a six-woman chase group.
01:58 Between them, they had enough firepower to catch Kiesenhofer with 50k to go.
02:03 Vargas had briefly been distanced,
02:06 but the Colombian was swept up by two more chasers,
02:08 Cristina Tonezzi and Silvia Zanardi,
02:11 as they made it a nine-rider breakaway.
02:13 Their gap wasn't significant though, just over a minute,
02:19 and there was nobody at the front to trouble the race leader, Demi Follering.
02:23 Wismar-Lise Baeik soon took up the reins at the front of the peloton for Vos,
02:28 who didn't need to worry about taking point to the intermediate sprints.
02:31 The maximum haul there went to Vargas, who was soon dropped.
02:35 Magalhaes also saying goodbye to the breakaway,
02:39 as the seven leaders now entered the final 40k.
02:42 But they were about to be caught,
02:44 because with a change of direction into a crosswind,
02:47 the race suddenly sparked into life.
02:49 You can see all the damage that has been done behind,
02:52 on these narrow roads, in the crosswind.
02:55 The peloton splitting into several groups,
02:57 with SD Works Pro Time putting the hammer down at the front,
03:00 just as they did on Stage 4.
03:02 Almost all of the top overall contenders were on the right side of the split.
03:06 Follering, Longa Borghini, Marcus, Labusse, Muzik and Bauernfeind.
03:10 The highest GC rider to miss out was 9th-placed Jara Kastelijn.
03:15 Stage winners Vos, Jackson and Volkner were also up there.
03:18 But Movistar had been caught out,
03:20 with no Liana Lippert and no Olivia Baril at the front.
03:24 The Spanish outfit leading the chase, but the damage had been done
03:27 and the gap was already out to over a minute.
03:30 There were 29 riders in the front group,
03:33 and as they continued to speed their way towards Siguenza,
03:36 it was looking increasingly unlikely that the chasers would catch up.
03:42 Following, discussing tactics with Reusser and Vass,
03:45 perhaps plotting something for the final.
03:47 Well, the attacks soon began to fly,
03:51 with Mischa Bredevold lighting it up for SD Works Pro Time.
03:54 The European champion was quickly caught
03:56 before her teammate Marlon Reusser had a go.
03:59 An attack now goes in from Marlon Reusser.
04:02 SD Works racing so aggressively,
04:04 Ricciardo Bauernfeind tries to follow her.
04:06 The moves coming thick and fast on this run-in.
04:10 And with all of these tactical games going on,
04:12 the chase group had closed the gap to 30 seconds.
04:15 Bredevold getting a small gap with Smulders, Williams and Jackson,
04:20 but they too were caught in the final few kilometers.
04:23 The front group managing to resist the chasers, though,
04:26 and they would contest the uphill sprint.
04:28 Kristin Vockner powering away from Longhi Borghini,
04:34 but Marianne Vos is in third wheel.
04:35 Green jersey of Marianne Vos into the final 200 meters now.
04:39 And green jersey, Marianne Vos is waiting to make her move.
04:42 Vockner on the front, but now Marianne Vos goes.
04:44 This is it.
04:45 The green jersey wearer, Marianne Vos, looks over to her left.
04:49 There is no response from behind.
04:51 Marianne Vos powering away to the finish.
04:53 Last few meters to go, and she has plenty of time to celebrate.
04:57 Marianne Vos was once again in a league of her own in today's sprint.
05:02 And she becomes the first rider to win two stages
05:04 of this year's Vuelta a Femenina.
05:06 The Dutch legend surging clear of Vockner and Longhi Borghini
05:10 to make it 253 career wins.
05:13 It's already her fifth victory
05:14 of what is shaping up to be an excellent 2024.
05:17 We really wanted to try and go for the stage win today.
05:21 And that's the reason why the team controlled.
05:25 And, yeah, of course, when they do so much work,
05:29 then you want to try and make it in the final.
05:31 And Rianne Marcus and me were in this final break
05:37 when the echelon started.
05:39 And, yeah, that was a good situation,
05:42 but, of course, also a little bit hard to control.
05:44 So a little bit stressful.
05:46 But then when we entered the final kilometer,
05:49 yeah, we just tried to stay in the best possible position
05:52 and go for it.
05:53 Vos winning by two seconds from a Vockner
05:56 who continues her impressive week after winning stage four.
05:59 Longhi Borghini in third,
06:01 followed by Vollering and Ingvild Gassjén.
06:03 Longhi Borghini has shaved a couple of seconds off Vollering's lead,
06:07 but the Dutch champion still goes into the final day
06:10 with an advantage of 52 seconds.
06:12 It's her race to lose.
06:14 Vos has already sewn up the green jersey, mathematically speaking.
06:18 She just needs to complete the race
06:19 to win the points classification for the second year running.
06:22 Caroline Svinkels, on the other hand,
06:25 will have her work cut out to keep the queen of the mountains jersey
06:28 as we hit the heights again on Sunday.
06:30 There is a mouth-watering finale in prospect
06:32 on the climb of Valdeschi on the outskirts of Madrid.
06:35 So do tune in again for that tomorrow.
06:37 And thanks for watching.
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