IT’S HERE! Get ready for three weeks of epic racing as we preview the 2025 Vuelta a España!
Can anyone stop Jonas Vingegaard? The Visma | Lease a Bike rider is the hot favourite, but a strong UAE team led by João Almeida and Juan Ayuso will be looking to take the fight to him.
And then there’s the route… With a start in Italy, a crucial TTT, two individual time trials, and the return of the BRUTAL Alto de l’Angliru, this race could go down to the wire! Who’s your pick for the red jersey?
Chapters ⏱️:
00:00 – Introduction to La Vuelta
02:12 – The 2025 Vuelta route
07:21 – The first high mountains
10:02 – Into the second week
13:19 – The Fearsome Angliru
14:40 – End of second week and into week three
17:15 – The individual time trial
18:14 – The final day in the mountains
20:05 – Race favourites
30:34 – Sprinters
32:40 – Our predictions!
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25 Comments
👇Drop your hot takes and predictions in the comments! 👇
Ah yes. Angry Lou. An old friend from the Bronx.
Richie did not recover from illness yet…so without him. Kuss will get that Andorra stage. Soler will do some entertaining solos…and I hope they brought Kernpharma team back to vuelta…last year got 3 stages! And let's see who will crack on angliru. 😮😮
Carapaz isn’t racing 😢
Carapaz is out
More often than not I find the Vuelta the most exciting of the grand tours.
And as a Dane this year .. Jonas is pretty much the favorite for ten of the stages, and Mads P for seven of them.
Richard Carapaz to miss Vuelta a España after 'stop-start recovery' from illness which kept him out of Tour de France
no guts,no glory, no challenge without pogi included in the race…
Almeida, I hope. Jonas so boring and won’t be as fresh
questionable if the stages in the northwest will be happening due to the wildfires 😢
What have you been smoking during research? The Collada de Toses have been used three times in the Vuelta and once even in the Tour 1968.
Thank you, guys, for doing this!!! I was hoping Primoz would go for #5 (maybe next year?), but that being said, I think Jonas will probably get it~ I just want him to have to work for it, to make the GC more fun to watch!
Whose wheel will Jonas stick to?
Drop your comments below.
Is it a sales technique in the UK to wear a shirt that looks like you slept in. Doesn’t matter I love the new Vuelta shirts and have one coming my way.
I'm not going to criticise specific things but I will say that, unlike English, if you learn the rules of Spanish pronunciation, you can pronounce anything that you see written down.
Si ironed his shirt and then took a nap on his left side
90th edition! Lol 😂
Every time there is a stage with el Angliru, I think of Dick Dale and the Del-Tones song, "Misirlou." If you've not heard it, it is a fantastic surf rock song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLxqm7ey4Nw
I think this could be the Grand Tour where Danes take all three big jerseys. Pedersen takes the points, and Vingegaard takes both GC and KOM.
Love the pronunciations fella's……
no mery to sprintes?? Just what kinda shit tour is this
Don't say Men's. This IS the final grand tour….
Carapaz will not be riding the Vuelta, it was reported today. He's hoping to be in full health for the World Championshis.
Who cares? No pogacar, no mvp, no del toro
Vingegaard will never beat pogacar in a gt
Pogacar needs vuelta to overcome Merckx
I wish 2026 pogacar goes for
San remo
Roubaix
Giro
Tour
Vuelta
Worlds
Lombardia
He cd win them all in one year. He cd also win worlds tt and road
THE most impt rider in world is del toro. Hes only rider w small chance to beat pogacar tours 2026-28. Ineos and quick step do whatever it takes to hire away this rider
And instill some courage in him, non courageous at giro
Fires in Spain. What effect ?