Simon Yates gets to grips with three-week racing | a recap of stages 16-21 of the 2018 Vuelta a Espana
A cast list for the 2018 Vuelta a Espana Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap Earlier this year, in the closing stages of the Giro d’Italia, Simon Yates collapsed like your granny…
Simon Yates is ahead again | a recap of stages 9-15 of the 2018 Vuelta a Espana
A cast list for the 2018 Vuelta a Espana Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap My second week recap (which technically also includes one stage from the first week) is a tale…
Let’s try and work out who’s actually trying to win the Vuelta a Espana | a recap of stages 1-8
A cast list for the 2018 Vuelta a Espana Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap The logical thing to do would have been to include the stage nine summit finish in this…
A cast list for the 2018 Vuelta a Espana
A cast list for the 2018 Vuelta a Espana Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap Grand Tour riders plan their seasons around whether they’re aiming for the Giro d’Italia or the Tour…
Chris Froome’s career reaches its peak while Alberto Contador departs at the top of one | the 2017 Vuelta a Espana final week wrap
The Final Week Wrap is an attempt to give an overview of how the Vuelta a Espana was won. As such, it focuses on the general classification – which is the overall race – rather…
Vincenzo Nibali and Miguel Angel Lopez do a spot of looming| the second 2017 Vuelta a Espana rest day wrap
The Rest Day Wrap is an attempt to give an overview of where things stand in the Vuelta a Espana. It focuses on the general classification – which is the overall race – rather than…
Chris Froome does the early riding | the first 2017 Vuelta a Espana rest day wrap
The Rest Day Wrap is an attempt to give an overview of where things stand in the Vuelta a Espana. It focuses on the general classification – which is the overall race – rather than…
Who will most enjoy the uphill finishes of this year’s Vuelta a Espana
If there’s one thing the Vuelta a Espana is known for, it’s throwing a hill in at the end of a stage. Flat day or mountain day, they tend to find one. There may be…
A good Vuelta for Froome’s reputation but a better one for Quintana’s
For a race so profoundly sprint-unfriendly, the final stage seems bizarre – almost irrelevant. Supposedly a reward for sprinters who’ve lasted the course, the truth is that few turned up in the first place, so…
Nairo Quintana not inclined to budge from race lead
In the end, the task of gaining over a minute on Nairo Quintana on a mountain stage proved as impossible as might realistically have been expected. If the Colombian has a weakness, it is not…
