Felix Grosschartner of Tadej Pogacar's UAE team has burst away from the front of the race. Joinas Vingegaard is sitting on Pog's wheel but it is UAE who are controlling this.

We have just hit the final climb, the Pike Bidea, and things are about to get really spicy...

We started with 176 riders, now there are 175. That crash has sadly ended the hopes of Movistar leader Enric Mas, who has abandoned the race.

The UAE team of Tadej Pogacar have just taken over at the front of the peloton from Jumbo-Visma, who are looking after defending champion Jonas Vingegaard. Those two teams are setting up their riders, and I am not sure anyone else can stop them.

Richard Carapaz is back in the race but he has hurt his knee and looks in pain. Enric Mas is still on the roadside and from the look on his face, he seems to have accepted that his race is over.

Another crash - Spanish rider Enric Mas and Richard Carapaz collided on the descent of Cote de Vivero and went down. It looks like it was a bad one.

Carapaz, who is EF Education–EasyPost's team leader, took a long time to get up. Mas, who is Movistar's leader, is up on his feet too but is getting treatment on the roadside and is still not back on his bike. His jersey is shredded and his shoulder seems to be the problem.

Eritrea's Biniam Girmay is another who found the pace too hot on the way over Cote de Vivero... He's hoping to become the first black African cyclist to win a stage of Tour de France, but it appears unlikely that it will happen today.

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Neilson Powless is first over the top of Cote de Vivero, collecting five King of the Mountains points - that should put in him the polka dot jersey tonight.

More and more riders are dropping off the back of the main bunch. Local hero Pello Bilbao is still in touch, but he's struggling. Still around 800m to go to the top of Cote de Vivero.

Mikkel Bjerg peels away, his job is done. It is the Jumbo-Visma team of Jonas Vingegaard who are at the front of the race now.

Julian Alaphilipe is on Tadej Pogacar's wheel. Jonas Vingegaard is watching Pog closely too. Mikkel Bjerg continues to set the pace.

Yep, Tadej Pogacar and his UAE team-mates are looking to do some damage here. Tom Pidcock is up there too, looking pretty comfortable at the moment.

The big hitters are at the front of the pack now, with Tadej Pogacar taking a stint himself at setting the pace. They are about to hit the 4km Cote de Vivero, which is steepest nearer the start.

The front of the race is over the top of Col de Morga now, leaving two more climbs to come.

The next one is the highest of the day, the category two Cote de Vivero, but they finish with the steepest, Cote de Pike, a category three but one which includes inclines with a 20% gradient.

I am sure Mark Cavendish and the rest of the sprinters cannot wait for that!

Mads Pedersen and Alexander Kristoff are among the many riders who are dropping off the back of the main bunch. This is hard day for the sprinters.

Here we go then... things are already starting to stretch out. Mark Cavendish is one of the riders who is finding things a bit too hot to handle, and there are still 2km to go to the top of Col de Morga. He won't be the only sprinter to be suffering.

There's a bit of a waiting game going on in the peloton at the moment. That is likely to change soon though - the race has reached the bottom of Col de Morga, which is a category four climb.

No reprieve for the five escapees this time. The peloton, still led by Jumbo-Visma, have just hoovered them up and the race is back together... for now.

There are 10km to go until the race hits the bottom of Col de Morga, which is the third of today's five categorised climbs.

The big-hitters will all want to be in position at the front of the pack for that moment so they are making moves now, which has brought the gap to the breakaway bunch down pretty drastically, to under 20 seconds.

At the back of the race, Astana's Alexey Lutsenko was dropped after stopping for a new wheel but he is back to within 20 seconds of the main pack, thanks to the help of team-mate Yevgeniy Fedorov.

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Jumbo-Visma are massed at the top of the peloton, with defending champion Jonas Vingegaard up at the front with most of his team-mates. They are controlling the race, keeping the gap to the escapees at 35 seconds.