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unusual facts about Vuelta


Ruben Cotelo

After his retirement he wrote for literary publications such as Vuelta (Buenos Aires), Jaque and Alternativa (Montevideo) and the Revista Iberoamericana de Literatura (Detroit).


Da la Vuelta

"Da la Vuelta" (Eng.: Turn Around) is a song written by Kike Santander and Emilio Estefan Jr., and performed by Marc Anthony.

Éric Caritoux

A promise he had forgotten about but the organisers had not, de Gribaldy was threatened with a £50,000 fine if the team did not ride, he had to scrape together a squad for the Vuelta at the last minute, this included the holidaying Caritoux, who was told to get to Geneva and then fly to Jerez de la Frontera in the south of Spain where the Vuelta was starting.

Giovanni Lombardi

Lombardi became the only rider of the peloton to participate and complete all three grand tours of the 2005 season, riding the Giro and Tour de France for team captain Ivan Basso as well as the Vuelta for Carlos Sastre.

Ivan Zulueta

And the second one, called Ida y Vuelta (Round Trip), based on a short story by William Jenkins.

Jo de Roo

1966 saw victory at the Omloop "Het Volk"; he won another stage in the Tour de France on his birthday (between Montpellier and Aubenas) and a stage in the Vuelta a España between Madrid and Calatayud.

Kira Miró

Los Serrano (Episode: "La vuelta al col"e (2004), also as presenter
returned for the fourth season (2006), - Lola

Reimund Dietzen

Seventeen years later, the Supreme Court of Spain ordered the organisers of the Vuelta a España to pay damages to Dietzen.

Roberto Heras

His Vuelta win was given to second place finisher, Russian Denis Menchov.

Uwe Raab

He most known for winning the Points classification in the 1990 and 1991 Vuelta a Españas.

Vuelta al Táchira

The Vuelta ciclista al Táchira (English: Tour of Táchira) is a multi-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually each January since 1966 in the state of Táchira in western Venezuela.

Vuelta Ciclista Por Un Chile Lider

The Vuelta Lider was created in 1997 by Lider, the largest supermarket chain in Chile, and is sanctioned by the Chilean Cycling Federation (Federación Ciclista de Chile).


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