Race leader Tadej Pogaar has abandoned the Vuelta a Espaa after a crash on stage eight. The UAE Emirates-XRG rider appeared to have hit a small rock on the left-hand side of the road, causing him to come down and taking other riders with him. Pogaar, grimacing, attempted to remount his bike, before deciding that the pain was too much. Face and shoulder cut and bloodied, he was ushered towards an ambulance, and his race put to an abrupt and unexpected end. He will head straight to the hospital.Until then, it had been an uneventful stage, with most of the peloton taking it as a kind of rest day before tomorrows mountain stage.Pogaars crash came 31km from the stages finish, just after the intermediate sprint. More to follow