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Posted by:
BraveInca
on Aug 24, 2013 at 12:54:33 AM
Villanova de Arousa to Sanxenxo, TTT - 27km
The Vuelta organisers have certainly found a novel way to start the 2013 race, with a Team Trial Time starting off from a 'Balea' or a floating wooden pontoon traditionally used for shellfish farming in the Galicia region.
The stage doesn't start until 7pm and heads south close to the coast for 27km on mostly flat roads, which should see some very fast speeds. It will be very important for those with GC ambitions to post good times to put themselves on the front foot heading in to the mountainous second stage. The riders should have a tail/slight cross wind for most of their journey south, so it will be the stronger teams who will fare best in possible blustery conditions.
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Posted by:
BraveInca
on Aug 24, 2013 at 12:50:56 AM
This year's Vuelta looks like being one of the most open stage races of the year, if not many years, with no clear favourite currently dominating at the top of the betting like Froome did at the Tour and Wiggins was at the Giro.
It is a particularly hard race this year with no fewer than 11 stages that can be classed as 'Mountaineous' and very little chances for the sprinters to shine along the way. The race starts with a rather unusual opening stage, a Team Time Trial, which will see the GC ordered mostly by team (except for those dropped from their squads on the way to the line) heading in to stage 2. Will Movistar go all guns blazing in the TTT to make it two wins in two years in the TTT, or will they let someone else have the honour (and stress/workload) of controlling the race so...