This stage is harder than it looks, lots of climbing in the first half. Not too steep though. But this will influence the type of riders and size of the early breakaway. Finish is on top of a 1,1k climb at 6,5% hill. Breakaway scenario (70% change) Alex Aranburu, Astana has a very strong team […]
So sprinters chances are on hold till the final stage. We start of the GC action once again with stage 11. Really hard day in the saddle with a very long finishing climb. The roadbook says 18,6k at 5,7% for the last climb but that is a bit misleading. Last 7 kilometers is almost 9% […]
Stage 9 is one out of three stages for the sprinters this Vuelta, adrenaline shot in the last 5 kilometers for the riders, high speed finish. Most likely we will see a 3-8 rider breakaway mostly filled with riders from the PCT teams. Deceuninck – Quickstep and Bora Hansgrohe have sprinting as on of their […]
Stage 8 starts with a ‘flat’ first 80 kilometers. This means 2 things, a lot of riders can get into the breakaway also the non-climbers. But its also easier to control for the GC teams if they got any plans. The stage is a typical Vuelta length I would say with 164 kilometers. The finishing […]
We all know Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert are likely to play a role in the final. But even those two can’t duplicate themselves and fill the top 20 on their own. Who else to watch besides the usual suspects? You read it here. 1. Rui Oliveira, he is on my list […]
The most exciting Grand Tour of them all, its pasta, pain and pink for 3 weeks! In this preview we are gonna take a look at the general classification favorites. The parcours consists of 3 timetrials, 4 or 5 potential sprint stages and the rest is mountain madness.The extraordinaly high amount of timetrials brings us […]