Robert Gesink escapes on stage eleven of the 2014 Tour of Spain
Robert Gesink has abandoned the 2014 Vuelta a Espana and will not start stage 18 on Thursday.
The Belkin team leader was lying in seventh place overall and has left the race to join his pregnant wife and family in the Netherlands.
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