The most devoted Vuelta.
The Return of Faith in the rebirth of cycling.
The route of the Spanish round of 2021 will be steeped in history, tradition and religious culture.
The test presented today will start on August 14 at the door of the Cathedral of Burgos, in homage to the VIII Centenary of the monumental temple, and will end on September 5 in the Plaza de Santiago de Compostela, in commemoration of the jubilee year.
Start and close lunges holiness.
Mystique to scare the damn Covid away.
Javier Guillén
, general director of the event, trusts that the race can be held on the announced dates, that it is not delayed, as it happened in the previous edition.
He also looks forward to getting the public back to the corridors.
In 2020, the Unipublic bubble was exemplary, without any infected cyclist, unlike the Tour and the Giro.
Satisfactory precedent to face a round that is still threatened by uncertainty.
With the restrictions set by the pandemic, the Vuelta will start and end with separate time trials, but its drawing smiles at the climbers, with the premiere of the
Gamoniteiro
(the new Angliru) and the return to Lagos de Covandoga, Velefique or Valdepeñas de Jaén.
The first week, always on the southern slope, you will ascend Picón Blanco (a common pass in the Vuelta a Burgos but unprecedented in the Spanish Ronda), a climb that starts in Espinosa de los Monteros.
The second section runs through Extremadura, the center of the peninsula (very interesting the 14th stage, ending at the top of Villuercas and the 15th, arriving at the Barraco) and the Cantabrian cornice.
The third, through the broken roads of Asturias and Galicia.
Gamoniteiro will make a difference.
The Asturian peak of the Sierra de Aramo shows brutal slopes.
It is 15 kilometers long, three more than Angliru, an altitude of 1,768 meters and a maximum slope of 17%.
The great difficulty of the
unprecedented summit
is that its ascent hardly presents rest areas, with an average and constant slope of 10%.
Strenuous effort.
It starts on a narrow path, surrounded by forests.
The most complicated section is the last one, with a concrete surface on an unprotected road.
A lunar landscape crowned by a gigantic television antenna, the wind will be a fatal enemy.
Remember
Mont Ventoux
.
Óscar Freire
,
Miguel Indurain
and
Óscar Pereiro
, who were present today at the gala organized by Unipublic at the Evolution Forum in Burgos, were closely watching the presentation of the new Asturian colossus.
Participation in the Tour will be category.
Except for changes forced by injuries and modification of the calendar, the Slovenian
Primoz Roglic
(Jumbo-Visma), winner of the 2019 and 2020 editions, will not attend this edition, since he has decided to turn to the Tour, which has always been him elusive.
Yes, there will be
Tadej Pogacar
(UAE Team Emirates), winner of the last Tour and who finished third in the 2019 Vuelta.
Steven Kruijswijk
(Jumbo-Visma),
Giulio Ciccone
(Trek-Segafredo),
Adam Yates
(Ineos) and the quartet
will also attend.
Movistar luxury:
Enric Mas
,
Miguel Ángel López
, Alejandro Valverde and
Marc Soler
.
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