Orbea didn't have the best of days either finishing a further five seconds down in 11th. As a consequence Ricardo García tumbled out of the top 10 and into 13th overall, 41 seconds in arrears.
Over in Poland the team is more likely to be pleased with its performance. On today's very lumpy queen-stage into Bukowina Tatrzanska Jon Izagirre showed his undoubted talent by finishing 18th inside a small four-man group containing Nordhaug, a certain Peter Sagan and Oliver Zaugg. The quartet come home just 13 seconds down on easily the strongest climber in the race: last year's overall champ Dan Martin. Through this excellent performance, Izagirre jr. now occupies a lofty 17th on GC heading into tomorrow's concluding stage. On a bad note, Fernández and Castroviejo both failed to finish the stage. The former is still suffering from injuries sustained in that high-speed crash on stage two and finally had to give into the pain, while no explanation was given for Castroviejo's abandonment (and his poor showing leading up to his DNF). Stage results:
- 18, J Izagirre, 0:13
- 39, J Azanza, 2:05
- 69, P Cazaux, 11:24
- 80, D Sesma, 14:44
- 90, M Mínguez, 17:23
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