The Vuelta a España starts tomorrow with a team time trial. I am looking forward to the racing, so I hope there are a few more people interested in this forum...
The favorites to win are Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas, defending champion), Michele Scarponi (Lampre) and Igor Anton (Euskatel Euskadi). Cycling News has a write up on the top 10 contenders. Among the riders that should be fun to watch are Peter Sagan, Taylor Phinney, Cavendish and Farrar. Wiggins and van den Broeck will also be there, as well as Cancellara, Klöden, Boonen, Chavanel, etc. I think it will be a contested race, so it should be fun to watch.
This site has plenty of information about the Vuelta: http://www.steephill.tv/vuelta-a-espana/
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08-19-2011, 06:29 PM #1
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Vuelta a España thread - spoilers allowed
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08-22-2011, 06:21 AM #2
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Too busy to figure out how to watch it. If I start watching, I know I'll spend way too much time. Best not to start.
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08-22-2011, 07:08 AM #3
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As usual I'm watching all the coverage I can of the Vuelta, it's available on ITV 4 and British Eurosport over here, hope Wiggins and Team Sky do well, they had an unlucky Prologue but got the stage win yesterday. Would have liked to see Cav up there at the finish but team tactics left them short and Goss abandoned on yesterdays stage, would be great for HTC to have a successful Vuelta and a fitting swansong for the team.
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08-22-2011, 07:24 AM #4
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I'll probably follow the Vuelta mostly reading online and save my TV time for whatever the Tour of Colorado is called now.
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08-22-2011, 07:51 AM #5
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Yesterday's stage was fun. I love that even the sprint stages are "lumpy"... they tend to open the race a bit more to lesser known riders. At the end of yesterday, there was an 8% "ramp". Boonen imploded after giving it a go - he sat down and he looked done.
Anyway, the Colorado race is only one week long and the replays in Versus are at 11PM!
Just in case, RTVE from Spain is keeping a video archive with the complete stages: http://www.rtve.es/deportes/ciclismo...espana/videos/
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08-22-2011, 01:35 PM #6
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The Vuelta is on Universal Sports. I watched this weekend's stages but will probably not have time to watch them much on weekdays.
I tried to find the transcript of the Live Update coverage on velonews.com, but it's pretty well hidden.
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