Today’s stage travels from yesterday’s arrival town of Valladolid to the city of Las Rozas. The road tilts gently upward for about the first 85 kilometers and then the stage gets a little more bumpy, culminating in the climb up Category 3 Alto des Leones at the 128km mark. From there, the riders will have [...]

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The Vuelta continues its rush to Madrid. Today’s stage from Zamora - Valladolid is relatively short at 148 km and should not present a significant challenge to the competitors. While you couldn’t call it a flat stage, there are very few bumps along the way.
The pace was a little quicker than yesterday’s laconic march. Perhaps the riders [...]

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Today’s stage travels south towards Madrid, encompassing 186.4 kilometres from Ponferrada to Zamora. Alberto Contador (Astana) started the day comfortably in the lead, with teammate Levi Leipheimer 1′17 behind.
It’s a hot day in Spain, and temperatures on the road are said to be upwards of 28 C (that’s 82F for those of you in the states). [...]

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Bike World News headquarters got waylaid by the remnants of Hurricane Ike yesterday afternoon, so there was no power, cable or phone. As a result, no race results.
Here’s the summary for Stage 14 (courtesy of CyclingNews.com): Spaniard Alberto Contador of Team Astana put a golden mark on this Vuelta a España with a counter-attack of Ezequiel [...]

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Busy day today, so I’ll let the big dogs provide the coverage today.
To summarize, Paolo Bettini made the bold move in the rain to take the win, while Alejandro Valverde got caught in a slow group and lost over 3 minutes.
Egoi Martinez still leads the general classification going in to tomorrow’s rest day. Levi Leipheimer [...]

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