August 25 th 2019 – 17:58 The lumpy roads leading to Calpe already saw the main contenders of La Vuelta 19 get on the move, with Nairo Quintana (Movistar) soloing to victory on Sunday. The race split after an intense battle in the last climb of the day, the Alto […]
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Vuelta a España 2019: Astana Wins Opening Team Time Trial
The Kazakh Astana Pro Team had a great start at the last Grand tour of the season La Vuelta Ciclista a España, winning the opening team time trial of 13.4 km in Torrevieja. From start to finish Astana did a very strong race, passing both the intermediate point and the […]
CCC Team Brings Mix of Youth and Experience to the Vuelta a España
19 August 2019 The third Grand Tour of the year, Vuelta a España, gets underway this Saturday (24 August) with CCC Team lining up at the start in Salinas de Torrevieja with a motivated roster aiming for stage wins. CCC Team will bring a mix of youth and experience to […]
Urán captains EF Education First Pro Cycling Vuelta team
Carthy, Craddock, Docker, Higuita, Martínez, Owen and van Garderen round out roster for season’s final Grand Tour It is not long now until the final Grand Tour of the season, la Vuelta a España, will be upon us. Once again the Spanish race organisers have created a parcours that will […]
WORLD CHAMPION, ALEJANDRO VALVERDE, WILL WEAR BIB NUMBER 1
The brilliant world champion, Alejandro Valverde, will be honoured in La Vuelta 19 by wearing bib number 1. The 22 teams that will commence the 74th edition of La Vuelta on the 24th of August at the Salinas de Torrevieja have already submitted their pre-registration forms to the organisation. Alejandro […]
Deceuninck – Quick-Step to Vuelta a España
Riders who between them have won more than a dozen races this year will line up at the start of the season’s final Grand Tour 20-Aug-2019: Vuelta a España kicks off on Saturday in Salinas de Torrevieja, with a team time trial, and once again concludes in Madrid, after three […]
BIANCHI AND TEAM JUMBO-VISMA AIM HIGH AT VUELTA A ESPAÑA
Primoz Roglic leads the World Tour team in the third GT of the season, flanked by Steven Kruijswijk. 2019 Vuelta a España starts on Saturday with a Team Time Trial in Salinas de Torrevieja he time of the third and last Grand Tour of the season has come for Bianchi […]
THE TIME AND THE ERA OF SOUTH AMERICA IN THE GRAND TOURS
With Richard Carapaz’s victory in the Giro d’Italia and Egan Bernal’s victory in the Tour de France, Latin American riders have two Grand Tours under their belts in 2019, equalling almost those accumulated by their predecessors over the last three decades (Herrera’s La Vuelta 1987 and Nairo Quintana’s Giro 2014 […]
2019 Vuelta: Lotto Soudal Team
From Saturday 24 August onwards, Sander Armée, Thomas De Gendt, Carl Fredrik Hagen, Tomasz Marczyński, Tosh Van der Sande, Brian van Goethem, Harm Vanhoucke and Jelle Wallays will represent Lotto Soudal in the three-week Vuelta a España. Last year, Lotto Soudal animated the final Grand Tour of the season with […]
LA ROJA TURNS 10 A LEADER JERSEY FIRST WORN BY MARK CAVENDISH, FOLLOWED BY PHILIPPE GILBERT, ETC…
La Vuelta 19 will be the 10th edition of La Roja: a jersey that, little by little, has earned a place in international cycling. The red (La Roja), that designates the leader of the general classification of La Vuelta, is a reference in today’s cycling, as are the maillot jaune […]