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Itzulia Basque Country 2025 stage 6 (Image credit: Itzulia Basque Country 2025)2025 Itzulia Basque Country - Everything you need to know2025 Itzulia Basque Country startlistRace situationThe final stage is soon to get underway Hello and welcome to Cyclingnews' live coverage of the the final stage of Itzulia Basque Country 2025.UAE Team Emirates' Joao Almeida enjoys a solid advantage heading into today's finale of the race, but this is the toughest stage of the week and we could see big GC differences made over the course of the next few hours.Almeida has a 30 second advantage over early race leader Max Schachmann and a further 8 over Florian Lipowitz.
Ilan van Wilder and Mattias Skjelmose are also less than a minute behind the Portuguese.We're about ten minutes away from the neutralised start in Eibar.So what about the parcours for today? The final stage has more climbing in it than any other this week.
The riders will tackle a gruelling 3716 vertical metres over the 153.5 kilometres. There are no less than eight categorised climbs on the route today, including the three first category ascents of the Azurki (5.
1km at 7.4%), Krabelin (5km at 9.4%) and Izua (4.
1km at 9%). You couldn't get a more classic Basque Country route if you tried. It's a proper shark tooth profile.
Yesterday's stage was dominated by one man. EF Education First-EasyPost's Ben Healy won with a 56.7km solo ride to beat the chasing peloton by almost two minutes.
There were no real changes on GC. Here's our full report from yesterday's stage.Itzulia Basque Country: Ben Healy solos to victory on stage 5(Image credit: Getty Images)Neutralised StartThe riders have rolled off into the neutral zone.
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