Hola ¿que tal? Eurosport stopped as a stand-alone offer a year ago and in its place a year of surfing various channels to watch many races via VPN. Language lessons galore.
Month: August 2025
Vuelta a España Preview
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.
Vuelta iCal
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.
World Tour Relegation Update
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.
Cycling As The New Football
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.