Last year, the UCI World Championships took place between the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, and this year, we had the Olympics. For the second year in a row, it feels like the final men’s Grand Tour has come around quick!
The race starts this Saturday, and unlike the Giro and Tour before it, there’s no clear favourite for the Vuelta. In this video, Dan will break down all 21 stages in detail and discuss the top contenders for the title this year!
00:00 Welcome to our La Vuelta Preview show!
00:29 Stats
01:47 The Route and Stage-by-Stage Breakdown
15:21 Check out our La Vuelta Collection! 🎉
15:50 Favourites
25:46 Predictions
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47 Comments
What do you think of this route? 🚴♂Could this be the best Grand Tour of the year? 🔥
When #AI was asked to translate #VUELTA to plain English: #TOURofPAIN
No pogacar
I fancy Theo Geoghegan Hart to do well!
GC Kuss
Aounds like Pogi in Z3 could have taken it
Primoz is only against himself in this race—the battle of not crashing out.
Sepp Kuss all the way. Very strong team backing him and the route suits the best climbers. Missed the tour so fresh legs.
Can't believe Pog is able to resist the Triple. The opportunity to do something that may never be done again is just out there waiting for him.
excited to (hopefully) see some actual competition finally! Let's go GC Kuss !!!!
*insert Ric Flair Woo!! Gif
There is a rumor that Tadej is laying low on the Olympics and Vuelta due to some medical supplement issue; it makes no sense for him not to crush the Vuelta as we know he would.
Let’s go Almeida!!! With a start in Portugal there no way he will lost this one 💪🏻💪🏻
Do people still care about this race?
Excellent preview, thank you👍
La Vuelta is more exciting to watch than the tour.
vamos México!
I've taken Carapaz for GC overall winner @ +2500. He should be an excellent underdog to follow for this VUELTA.
Always the best Grand tour of the year. Brutal course.
Dan. Your diet has affected your thinking…. Del Toro? Well, maybe someday. I'm going with Roglic for leaders and points jersey. Sepp gets third behind Adam Yates.
It’s gonna be a walk in the park for rogla.The other three aliens are not here .💉🤡🎪🤐🤫
62k meters of elevation!! Hats off to WvA at 78 kg to join the party. I got dropped just watching this video….
I lost track on how many queen stages there are….
They send you to this race if you have any sort of bullets left in the tank. Just riding around it to finish will be an ordeal not withstanding the un knowns like a few Weeks of heavy Spanish rain showers .
Very happy that the 2 top cheaters are not starting there. Might open the door for some fresh faces with less suspicious performances in the past. Thanks for doing these previews Dan!
Sepp Kuss for win. Del Toro for 2nd. Roglic 3rd.
I enjoyed the video and am now better prepared.
Thanks Dan! Great preview, and looking forward to this!
Jesus Crit.. the participants will have to be literally machines
Looking at rouvy's challenges on vuelta and courses.. I'll pass on this occasion 😂😂
SEPP!!
(though it would be amazing to see Pogi try for the Triple Crown)
It’s either going to be great or terrible
I'm assuming the sprinters are giving this a miss…
brutal just brutal,may the best man/team win 😅
Realistically I am most interested to see how Isaac del Toro will perform. A year younger than him Pog…a baby Pog…was toying with the peloton at his first Vuelta and look how far he has gone.
I’m quite surprised Cav didn’t hang on to end his career at the Vuelta. It seems tailor-made for him 😂
Mah, Vuelta is for second tier racers 😋
The last few Vuelta ciclista a Españas have been harder parcours than le Tours & iL Giros, not so 2nd tier
Man the Vuelta organizers absolutely do not like sprinters. It’ll be an interesting one to watch with so much climbing all over the place.
No MVP?
Del Toro! Big call. Hope you're right.
Sepp kuss will defend his title with 3 stage win and KOM
Ineos getting shut out at the TDF. They have to be hungry for wins.
The lack of clear favorites will make this race open and great, even though I feel that Roglic is the best at Vuelta from the whole bunch taking part. Difficult parcour will mean conservative racing. There will be guys going for breakaways but only once, then it's rest. I just hope van Aert will snatch a victory, not sure about the first stage so he could wear red! Go Wout! Thank you, Dan, great stuff as always!
as an american, an englishman's self-conciousness about a mere 3 languages is amusing 🤣
agree on del Toro. As soon as I saw all whom UAE was NOT bringing, I said to myself, "so a Mexican is going to win the Vuelta then?"
Outstanding overview. Well done