Category: Vuelta a Espana
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Primoz Roglic completes the catch | a recap of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana
The 2024 Vuelta a Espana showcased two of the race’s abiding qualities. Firstly, the at times chaotic nature of the race that means serious riders can sometimes take serious time by getting in the right break. Secondly, the glut of opportunities to take time on your rivals if you can climb better than they can.…
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Why the 2024 Vuelta a Espana might have to pick its own favourites
Who will win the 2024 Vuelta a Espana? Pffsh. Who knows? Unlike the first two Grand Tours of the season, there’s little predictable about the upcoming trip round Spain. Last year the team that was then Jumbo-Visma, and is now Visma-Lease a Bike, arrived at the Vuelta armed with the guy who had just won…
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Sepp Kuss survives three Grand Tours and his own team-mates | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana
A strong, loyal and selfless servant on the crucial days when stage races are won and lost, Sepp Kuss is pretty much exactly what you’d mould if you had the power to shape the perfect team-mate. It was therefore something of a surprise when the two men he helped to victories in this year’s Giro…
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Can anyone place a foot on Jumbo-Visma’s podium? | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana
Remco Evenepoel bested all his overall rivals in the Stage 10 time trial and then won Stage 14 in the Pyrenees. If it weren’t for the small matter of shipping 27 minutes on Stage 13 in between those two triumphs, it would have been a pretty good week for last year’s Vuelta a Espana winner.…
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Three talking points after Stages 1-9 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana
I’m already a day late with this, so the time trial will have happened by the time you’re reading it. Let’s ignore that for the time being and instead make some sort of effort to sum up the first nine days of racing in this year’s Vuelta a Espana. I’d normally do a fuller recap,…
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Who are the favourites for the 2023 Vuelta a Espana?
Until the racing or an abandonment or two tell us otherwise, we can keep this very simple. The main contenders for the 2023 Vuelta a Espana are the guy who won it last year; the guy who won the three before that; and the guy who’s won the last two Tours de France. I will…
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2023 Vuelta a Espana highlights will NOT be on ITV4 – here’s where you can watch it
ITV4 lost the rights to the Vuelta a Espana a couple of years back. The highlights willl still be on free to air UK TV though. They’ll be on Quest, which is a channel you may not think you have, but probably actually do. The race starts tomorrow (Saturday). If you’re a casual cycling fan,…
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Well you could say that Remco Evenepoel was without rival | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2022 Vuelta a Espana
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap Well, I’ve got to be honest, that kind of petered out a bit. The week began with Remco Evenepoel leading Primoz Roglic by 1m34s after the latter had repeatedly snatched small chunks of time and chipped away at the Belgian’s lead. The decisive moment Stage…
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Everyone’s fading but you | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2022 Vuelta a Espana
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap Remco Evenepoel went into the second week of the Vuelta a Espana with a 1m12s lead, then he won the time trial by a mile, then he started fading a bit. Fortunately for him, his most obvious rival seems off the pace too. The TT…
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Remco Evenepoel deploys his tactic | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2022 Vuelta a Espana
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap A few months after dropping the entire field at Liege-Bastogne-Liege by riding slightly took quickly for them all, young Belgian mega-hope Remco Evenepoel has carved himself a 1m12s lead in the Vuelta a Espana by deploying the same unsubtle but so far unanswerable tactic. The…