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4 unusual facts about Vuelta a España


Conrad Earnest

With respect to the high performance athlete, Earnest has published several notable papers with colleagues from Spain examining the physiologic characteristics of professional cyclists competing in the three-week Grand Tours of cycling: The Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España.

Euskaltel

The team, one of eighteen elite teams making up the UCI ProTour, is a regular participant in the annual Tour de France and Vuelta a España, and has helped launch the careers of many top Basque riders such as Iban Mayo and Haimar Zubeldia.

Mount Abantos

On the wast side of Abantos is the port of Malagon, one of the toughest mountain stages of the Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain).

Sabiñánigo

It is also a frequent start and finish point of the Vuelta a España.


Anthony McCrossan

He has commentated live, and voiced over thousands of hours of television, covering all the major races in the world including The Tour De France, Giro d’Italia, Vuelta a España, Tour of California and every major classic including Paris-Roubaix, Tour of Flanders, Liege Bastogne Liege, Amstel Gold, Milan San Remo, as well as the World Road and Track Championships.

Bekim Christensen

He switched to Team Coast in 2000 where he rode with the big names of two-time Vuelta a España winner Alex Zülle and Tour de France stage winner Fernando Escartín.

Jean Graczyk

Jean Graczyk (26 May 1933, Neuvy-sur-Barangeon – 27 June 2004, Vierzon) was a professional road bicycle racer who won two maillot vert (or green jersey) points competitions at the Tour de France and has won several stages each at the Tour de France and Vuelta a España.

José Ramón de la Morena

De la Morena began as a journalist at Radio Intercontinental, but in 1981 he moved to the sports department of the Cadena SER, where he covered the football world cup, La Liga tournament, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.

Philippe Gilbert

On 26 August 2012, Gilbert finally managed his first victory of the season by winning the ninth stage of the Vuelta a España after breaking away together with Joaquim Rodríguez.


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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.

Reimund Dietzen

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