Vuelta a Espana: Chris Froome stays second overall after stage 13 truce

Chris Froome stayed second overall behind Vuelta a Espana leader Nairo Quintana after the favourites called a truce on a rolling 13th stage won by Valerio Conti.

With back-to-back summit finishes looming on Saturday and Sunday, all of the red jersey contenders and their teams decided to save their legs on Friday's 213.4km marathon and the peloton consequently ambled to the finish 34min 54sec behind the breakaway.

It means Quintana (Movistar) remains 54 seconds ahead of Froome (Team Sky) and 1min 5sec in front of third-placed Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) going into stage 14, which crests three category-one climbs and then ends with a special-category summit finish on the Col d'Aubisque in the French Pyrenees.

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Sunday's 15th stage tackles one category-three and one category-two climb ahead of a category-one summit finish at Aramon Formigal.

Conti (Lampre-Merida), meanwhile, formed part of a 12-man breakaway on stage 13 but moved into a lone lead with 17km to go and pulled away to win by 55 seconds from runner-up Danilo Wyss (BMC Racing) and third-placed Sergey Lagutin (Katusha).

Conti said: "We knew that the breakaway would go to the end because we had a huge advantage.

"I felt really good; it was the right stage for me; it was the right breakaway. It's my first victory in a Grand Tour and it's a great feeling."

Find out more about stage 14 in our race guide and follow all the action with our live blog from 1pm BST.

Stage 13 result

1 Valerio Conti (Ita) Lampre-Merida, 5:29:04
2 Danilo Wyss (Sui) BMC Racing, +55sec
3 Sergey Lagutin (Rus) Katusha, same time
4 Michael Gogl (Aut) Tinkoff, st
5 Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor) IAM Cycling, st
6 Yves Lampaert (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step, st
7 Cesare Benedetti (Ita) Bora-Argon 18, +1:02
8 Jelle Wallays (Bel) Lotto Soudal, +1:04
9 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Astana, st
10 Stephane Rossetto (Fra) Cofidis, +1:08

General classification

1 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar, 52:56:29
2 Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky, +54sec
3 Alejandro Valverde (Esp) Movistar, +1:05
4 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-BikeExchange, +2:34
5 Alberto Contador (Esp) Tinkoff, +3:08
6 Leopold Konig (Cze) Team Sky, +3:09
7 Simon Yates (GB) Orica-BikeExchange, +3:25
8 Michele Scarponi (Ita) Astana, +3:34
9 David de la Cruz (Esp) Etixx - Quick-Step, +3:45
10 Samuel Sanchez (Esp) BMC Racing, +3:56

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