Stage 18 of the Vuelta a España delivers the 2025 race's one individual time trial and in classic Vuelta contrareloj country in Valladolid to boot.
Filippo Ganna won the last race against the clock here in 2023, and it proved crucial for leader Sepp Kuss, too, who produced a much better-than-expected TT performance and radically increased his chances of overall victory.
It will, however, now be a much shorter time trial this time as the original 27.2km course has been slashed to just 12.2km as the race braces for more protests.
Still, the memories of the course that starts and finishes in Valladolid from two years ago aren't welcome ones for current race leader Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) as he looks ahead to the now 12.2km race against the clock which has only a small slope at the beginning.
