Millar quits wind and rain in Spain

Britain's David Millar finally made an impact on the Tour of Spain yesterday, but not in the way he would have wished. The Scot abandoned the race on top of its toughest climb, the Col d'Angliru, as a protest against the conditions of heavy rain and fog in which the 15th stage was run.

According to eyewitnesses, the 25-year-old Scot reached the finish line but stopped just before he got there and removed his race number, which he placed at the foot of the grandstand. He then turned around and went back down the mountain, and the organisers deemed he had quit the event, in which he was lying ninth overall at the start of yesterday's stage.

The race leader Oscar Sevilla lost three minutes to Lance Armstrong's US Postal team-mate Roberto Heras, who now looks set to repeat his victory of 2000. "Inhuman" was how Sevilla described the stage.