Vuelta a España: Stage 15

Weather can always play a factor in the grand tours. In Italy it's usually snow, in the Tour it's usually either really hot weather or really stormy weather. In the Vuelta it's usually, well honestly it's usually nothing. But this year it has been especially hot and today as they road up into a mountain they road into rain and fog. Stages like this are fun to watch and I'm sure they are not fun to ride in.

Anyhow it was the second day in a row with a mountain top finish and today it was Vincenzo Nibali coming under pressure as race leader. He was attacked hard by Ezequiel Mosquera and Mosquera did manage to scrape back some time, but not much just 11 seconds. Meanwhile it was Carlos Barredo who was the hero of the day. He was in an early break away and managed to survive to the end to take the win.

They have another mountain top finish tomorrow, in a much tougher stage.

General classification after stage 15

#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo	65:31:14
2	Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha	0:00:04
3	Ezequiel Mosquera (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia	0:00:39
4	Peter Velits (Svk) Team HTC-Columbia	0:02:29
5	Xavier Tondo (Spa) Cervélo Test Team	0:02:30
6	Nicolas Roche (Irl) Ag2R-La Mondiale	0:02:47
7	Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank	0:02:48
8	Tom Danielson (USA) Garmin-Transitions	0:03:48
9	Carlos Sastre (Spa) Cervélo Test Team	0:04:29
10	Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha	0:05:27