The Vuelta a España begins this Saturday and an especially mountainous edition awaits. Jonas Vingegaard is the obvious pick for the win in Madrid, it’ll be interesting to see if a rider from outside of UAE or Visma-LAB can stand on the podium there too.
Here’s a Vuelta a España calendar for your phone or organiser with all stages listed along with a rating for their likely importance to the race or potential for action.
These calendars seem popular for each grand tour. This lists each stage, with the distance plus a stellar rating to indicate the strategic importance or likely entertainment.
If it’s not for you but you’re interested in watching the race note most stages finish around 5.20pm CEST.
Two months of the season to go and here’s a look at the standings in the promotion and relegation race. Things are close at the bottom end of the table with events off the road as well as likely as racing results to impact the outcomes.
Transfer talk, fee payments, mega salaries and managers being fired. No, not the Premier League but Remco Evenepoel and Red Bull this summer. Pro cycling is increasingly taking on some aspects of soccer’s top flight because it is attracting ever larger sums of money.
After an opening week where Tadej Pogačar took time gains here and there, the first summit finish settled things. Jhonatan Narvaez leads out Tadej Pogačar at the foot of the climb to Hautacam. Seconds later the rainbow jersey will attack and Jonas Vingegaard cannot follow. The Dane tries to pace himself, holding at 20 seconds for several kilometres but cracks, losing over two minutes and almost being caught by Florian Lipowitz.
The final stage with a twist, the climb of Montmartre and with this the chance of a different kind of race in the finish.
The breakaway world championships. The transition stages have been better than the mountain stages this year and today should be a lively day.
If you want to watch note the earlier finish of the stage today, timed so you can stay and watch the Tour de France Femmes which starts begins its traverse of France this evening.
The biggest mountain stage of the Tour, with three big climbs, altitude and bad weather too.
The chance for the sprinters. The way many stages have been ridden there’s a chance of breakaway.
