HIGHLIGHTS
RECAP: Last Stage of La Vuelta
La Vuelta 2021 will start 14th of August in Burgos, Spain, with a short urban time trial (8 kilometres). La Vuelta come back to original number of stages and original month. 21 stages in august and September with 3.336 kilometres.
The Route will be very interesting with new mountain passes, two Individual Time Trial – ITT (first day in Burgos Cathedral and last day in the Santiago Cathedral, Galicia), great middle mountains stages and dangerous flat stages, some days crosswind can be decisive.
Stages you won’t want to miss at the 2021 Tour of Spain. Asturian roads become the judge of La Vuelta for another year. Gamoniteiro (14,9 km and 9.7% average slope), with a higher coefficient than Angliru. This mountain pass expected to go down in history.
In addition, there will be points in 45 climbs, including two big cols such as Alto de Velefique and the mythical climb to Covadonga Lakes (Lagos de Covadonga). The third stage finish in Picón Blanco climb (8,4km at 9.7%), this day some leader could lost an important time to general classification.
There are some great cyclists who are ready at La Vuelta 2021. Top four riders of the Grand Tours are ready to this race: Primoz Roglic, Richard Carapaz and Egan Bernal. Finally, Pogaçar won’t be at La Vuelta from 14 august.
Spaniards Mikel Landa and Enric Mas will fight for the podium. The Spanish team Movistar has other big climber to win mountain stages, Miguel Ángel ‘Superman’ López. Promising cyclist Thomas Pidcock will ride the first Grand Tour.
More details about stages profiles.
Queen stage (étape reine) of this edition. Gamoniteiro is a awesome new climb in La Vuelta. It is located very close to the Angliru. Gamoniteiro is 14,6kilometre-long climb at 9,8%. Cordal Pass ( translated as tailpiece) is dramatic if its raining, due to the slippery pavement of Asturian roads.
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