Vuelta a España 2020

[ScottCM]

Podg?

Nope

 

David De La Cruz (Spa)

Davide Formolo (Ita)

Alessandro Covi (Ita)

Jasper Philipsen (Bel)

Rui Costa (Por)

Sergio Henao (Col)

Aleksandr Riabushenko (Blr)

Ivo Oliveira (Por)

[lechatnoir]

What a first week:

Stage 1 - 3 are mountains and then Stage 6 to end on Col du Tourmalet

 

that area looks like this currently... if they get over there, it'll be amazing

[Vetplant]

Line-up Vuelta a España (20/10/2020-08/11/2020)

 

 

Primoz Roglic

Tom Dumoulin

Lennard Hofstede

Jonas Vingegaard

 

George Bennett

Paul Martens

Robert Gesink

Sepp Kuss

The optimist in me wants Jumbo Visma to give Kuss free reign to go on the attack in the first couple of stages and take Red, possibly with a healthy margin over other GC contenders, who will focus on Roglic/Dumoulin.

 

That way, Kuss covers them incase the race ends after 1 week. And the two big guns spare their matches for the latter part of the tour, if we get there.

[Ozzie NL]

that area looks like this currently... if they get over there, it'll be amazing

That's rideable.....Stevio on the menu for the Giro boys in Thurs...understand there's plenty snow there at the moment

[lechatnoir]

That's rideable.....Stevio on the menu for the Giro boys in Thurs...understand there's plenty snow there at the moment

 

if it's like that when they ride through, it will be a visual-gasm of note!!!

 

but if they ride through during weather that actually got that snow there in the first place, is suspect mushing some huskies up there would work much better. it's going to be exciting to see it all unfold

[Vetplant]

Safe to say that it will start tomorrow with a bang!

 

No easy stages to start things off.

[Jewbacca]

Is this going to be televised on channel 279 SS prime time variety 7?

 

Yoh.... Giro and Vuelta AND waves all week..... I am going to need to prioritise some work in somewhere!

[shaper]

Start list https://cycling.today/2020-vuelta-a-espana-start-list/?fbclid=IwAR3Iihruq_etcJUNcnT7MKArGMYNZuJoeeBwSLkN9JjuEaqqAGijp0-JL2M

[ScottCM]

Start list https://cycling.today/2020-vuelta-a-espana-start-list/?fbclid=IwAR3Iihruq_etcJUNcnT7MKArGMYNZuJoeeBwSLkN9JjuEaqqAGijp0-JL2M

 

Cam Wurf, nice. 

[Rowl]

Start list https://cycling.today/2020-vuelta-a-espana-start-list/?fbclid=IwAR3Iihruq_etcJUNcnT7MKArGMYNZuJoeeBwSLkN9JjuEaqqAGijp0-JL2M

Hope to see Willie in a few of the breaks. He has some reputation to live up to.

[Vetplant]

Hope to see Willie in a few of the breaks. He has some reputation to live up to.

I am pretty sure he will be up for getting into the break... hope the dice fall his way.

[ScottCM]

Surprise Surprise Tim Wellens is in the 1st breakaway of the Tour. Guess he has his sights set on the KOM Jersey

[Rowl]

So glad the Vuelta live tracking is not the same as the Giro (seriously shite).

[Benjamin]

Wow, quite a stage for the kickoff. Looks like going to be very few left standing in the Roglic chase . Primoz a class act . 

[Christie]

I see Froome lost 11 min today - dont think he will be much help to Carapaz.

[Bonus]

If we plan it right, we can see the race twice on Saturday and again on Sunday . . . . .

 

On Saturday it passes through Ainsa, 6km east of us in Boltana and then again through Fiscal, 18km west of us.

 

On Sunday we'd have to drive a bit further, to Sabinanigo - which is where we saw the race a couple of years ago on the day that Chris Froome lost so much time because Nairo and Alberto attacked from the gun!