2009 La Vuelta A España

http://www.lavuelta.com/09/imgrecorrido/mapa_peque_ing.jpg

bypassing the Basque country for an extended start in The Netherlands, including a day 1 ITT ala 09 TdF, starting tomorrow.

http://cycling.tv will carry the feed in North America.

http://www.universalsports.com has it live online in the US, and also an hour-long recap show on the TV channel every day.

just checked and I guess cycling.tv is doing it in cooperation with universal?
so who is going to win it?

I am amused that the spanish riders all have their other surnames revealed in the start list:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/64th-vuelta-a-espana-gt/start-list

Looks good though, some good names, you have to fancy Andy Schleck assuming he has recovered from the tour.

cadel might be a good thing i reckon. he'd be hurting after the tour flop.

Wet racetrack with lots of corners must absolutely suck. Wonder how much it will dry for the later starters?

What the hell is the small boy they gave fabian cancellara?

King of the mountains toy train is good swag IMO.

"bypassing the Basque country for an extended start in Belgium" lolz

watching highlights now... good stuff

Third place for Roger Hammond today. Can I mention that I raced against Roger Hammond twenty years ago again? Please?

dudes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klrp9eh3L1w

yowch

horner's out with busted hand

one of the saxo bank dudes ran into the back of a tractor earlier on in the stage too! :0

LOL, two goes with the Cava bottle for the rider from the wildcard team.

vino blew up on today's last climb! hahahaha.

good streaming coverage of this

http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gogerro.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=detZzeN7orE

still baffled why cervelo didn't take him to the tour!

finally a gt win for farrar and garmin

I've been terrible about keeping up however, happy to see gesink in second after his tour crash.

guys

mm?

great win for nicholas roche today

never forget
http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling-i-wanted-to-smash-his-head-in-i-couldnt-stand-to-be-near-him-26664924.html

h8 chris horner

is that a bike he's riding or a fucking gate

is horner drugs?

Don't think so. It was an eyebrow-raising performance today but even the witch finder generals of The Clinic don't seem to have any dirt on him.

amazing finish today

oh come off it

http://inrng.com/2013/09/vuelta-chris-horner-performance-age/#comments

don't know if you guys ever see clinic or dark side or not safe for cycling fans and other shitty boards, but watching froom fanboys and others lose their shit over this is like comfort food for my hidden inner troll.

best tour of the year

fully expecting sky to drop froome for horner following this performance

death or glory attack from nibbles here

amazing tour; best of the year

racing non-stop w/some incredible stages

well done horner*

can't even look him in the eye : )
http://d4nuk0dd6nrma.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/CORVOS_00021917-050.jpg

Is that before or after he sprayed the podium champagne into his eye?

http://velorooms.com/index.php?topic=4167.0

from the section a bit above halfway down the page entitled 'forum post february 2005' - dirt on Horner. haven't got time right now to dig for corroboration.