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 […]
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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 […]
Official Route of 2019 Vuelta Announced
The official route for La Vuelta 19 was today announced at the ADDA auditorium in Alicante. The 74th edition of the Spanish race will take place between August 24th and September 15th 2019, setting out from Salinas de Torrevieja and ending in Madrid. With a distance of 3,272.2 km, the […]