GCN’s 2018 Vuelta a España Preview Show | Vuelta a España 2018

The final grand tour of the season, the Vuelta a España starts this Saturday in Malaga. We take a look at the key stages and climbs of the Vuelta and discuss riders to watch at this year’s race. We also give our prediction, hitting even more riders with the GCN curse!

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Once again, la Vuelta is the shortest grand tour of the season at 3255 km’s, starting on the South coast in Malaga and eventually heading to its now traditional finish in Madrid, where we’ll also see the 4th women’s Madrid Challenge. On their website, the Vuelta organisers say that there are 8 flat stages, but two of those are flat stages with a high altitude finish, which I thought was quite funny, even if the sprinters won’t. Beyond that, there are 6 hilly stages, which presumably means hilly from start to finish, 5 mountain stages and 2 time trials.

Over the course of the 21 stages, there are 46 summits, i.e. categorised climbs, and the first of those comes already on stage 2, with a 2nd category climb from the gun, two 3rd category climbs in the middle and then another one at the finish, the Caminito Del Rey. And then it’s not long before we get the first big mountaintop finish, which comes on stage 4 on the 12 km long Puerto de Alfacar. Which has gradients over 11% around halfway up.

The first main shakeup on the GC is expected to come in the second week, following a tough 7 days of ‘intermediate stages’ in week one. Three summit finishes in a row, from Stage 13-15, whilst not high summit finishes, these will certainly see positions change in the overall standings. From a visual perspective, Lagos de Covadonga will provide stunning backdrops for the third mountain finish in a row on stage 15, just before the 2nd and final rest day.

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