As part of his daily VeloNews diary, Will Frischkorn writes about the stage 11 and the change in the nature of the race with big time gaps and a GC contender to protect. He also writes about the unfortunate positive tests of Beltran and Duenas.

“I think it says something positive as well that people are getting caught. For years there was testing that seemingly accomplished very little, but now, with very few still stuck in the ways of old, people are getting caught…I hope that a couple isolated idiots aren’t enough to swing the momentum back in a negative direction and that everybody can stay focused on the beauty, the drama and the quality racing that goes down on the level day in and day out.”