"It's a stage for the breakaway," Landa said when he arrived in the mixed zone. "I think for the general classification, it's difficult that anything will happen today."
Landa was surprisingly unable to follow when Richard Carapaz accelerated on the climb of Puerto Herrera, and a ten-metre gap quickly stretched out to half a minute.
Despite the best efforts of his team, the gap to Landa’s podium rivals continued to mushroom, and he eventually settled into a sizeable chasing group.
Landa would reach Maeztu exactly ten minutes down on stage winner Urko Berrade and lost 3:20 to his podium rivals.
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