Saturday is a very big day at the Tour of Spain...

...after todays rest day for the Pro riders in the Vuelta a España because tomorrow is the grand daddy of all mountains climbs in this tour - San Vicente de la B. - Alto de L´Angliru...more like a goat climb with some pitches at 23.5% !!! and these men do not use a triple crankset...below are some pictures & graphs from the brutal stage 13 location in Spain...can't wait :-)

Here's a great website article previewing the stage...

http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=6285&status=True

Team Astana is sitting pretty good in the race for GC Overall but some strong attacks will come over the next couple of days of racing in the mountains...

General Classification after Stage 12:

1 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 45.48.33
2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana 0.11
3 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Astana 0.29
4 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.38
5 Ezequiel Mosquera Miguez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 2.10
6 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.23
7 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 3.22
8 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 3.40
9 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre 4.09
10 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4.10

Team Astana on GC:

18 Andreas Klöden (Ger) 10.17
21 José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Spa) 12.08
37 Sergio Miguel Paulinho Moreira (Por) 24.53
64 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (Spa) 41.43
97 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) 1.06.23
118 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) 1.37.30
121 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) 1.54.52


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