I'd forgotten that Uran could do the double too!
Orica would be wise to rest Simon and let Adam do it. I think!
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I'd forgotten that Uran could do the double too!
Orica would be wise to rest Simon and let Adam do it. I think!
themosquitoking
Guru
- Location
- Spain
Doubling up on the Tour and Vuelta doesn't seem to have caused many problems over the last three or four years, it's the Giro Tour double that seems to be the killer.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
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- The Red Enclave
Just had a look at the route. Stage 20 ends on the Angliru. Ouch.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
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- The Red Enclave
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
With him going to Movistar I'd be surprised to see Sky giving Landa the chance, though he probably deserves it after his support of Froome at the Tour.
I'd like to see the Yates boys have a serious challenge, but maybe it is to earlier for them.
Fight.The.Power
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Think Poels is the dark horse winner for me. Difficult if not impossible to know his form, but a definite contender IMO. 
Starchivore
I don't know much about Cinco de Mayo
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- Halifax, West Yorkshire
I vow to follow La vuelta this time, being very very guilty of only ever really watching Le tour. I'd like to see some more of Spain, having never been there despite speaking a decent amount of Spanish. I'll be reliant on watching ITV4's highlights on catch-up though.
Don't get your hopes up. Some of the scenery will be great, but often the Vuelta is beset with long stages mostly run on dual carriageways with very little by way of background. It's just the way the landscape is in the interior of some parts of Spain. It suffers in this regard vs both France and Italy. For my money this is made up by the numerous ridiculously steep tracks / paths which are often used as mountaintop finishes. A casual 20% gradient seems to come far more often than I would expect.
SWSteve
Guru
- Location
- Bristol...ish
But he'll have to go downhill at some point, and that isn't a strength, nor is his time trialling - those 40km could be his undoing
Very true about the time trialling. So many contenders rule themselves out due to the fact they can't tt.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
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- The Red Enclave
I thought Zakarin was a decent time triallist, but a quick check over his record suggests he's good at time trials in the same way that Uran is. He is current Russian TT champion though, for what that's worth (standard of competition for that title doesn't seem so high).
I presume the comment about his descending was meant to be facetious.
I presume the comment about his descending was meant to be facetious.
brommers
Years beyond my wisdom
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- Clacton-on-Sea
He generally is a good TTer - the times he's finished lower down the order is when he has come off his bike.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Actually, I think the route looks fairly tasty with not too much in the empty bits this year, but I've yet to look at the detail:
SWSteve
Guru
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- Bristol...ish
Comment on his TT skills were because he binned it (possibly twice) the last time I saw him do one, and everyone else seemed to remain upright
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
There have been recent changes to the Vuelta route, including making the ITT shorter. So they obviously read on here that I thought it was too long
