This Tuesday, the Madrid Marriott Auditorium Resort hosted the official presentation of the route of La Vuelta 24. The 79th version of the Spanish tour will take off from Lisbon on the seventeenth of August and can conclude in Madrid on the eighth of September. Its 21 levels will embrace 10 unprecedented departures and 6 unprecedented finish-lines, will go to 9 autonomous communities and a pair of nations: Portugal and Spain. In sporting phrases, the cyclists will face 9 high-altitude arrivals, three of which makes its La Vuelta debut (Yunquera, Cazorla and Puerto de Ancares), 2 particular person time trials, 5 mid-mountain levels, 8 mountain levels and 6 flat or undulating levels.

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La Vuelta 24 – The Route

Unipublic offered the route of La Vuelta 24 on Tuesday, the nineteenth of December. The race will happen between the seventeenth of August and the eighth of September. It’s going to depart from Portugal, with Lisbon, Oeiras and Cascais internet hosting the primary few levels. It will likely be the second time within the historical past of the race that Portugal hosts La Vuelta’s Grand Departure, after the Portuguese capital hosted the race’s first worldwide Grand Departure again in 1997.

La Vuelta 24 will begin with a person time trial between Lisbon and Oeiras. In Stage 2, the peloton will depart from Cascais and head North, to the town of Ourém. The third stage of La Vuelta 24 via Portuguese territory will happen between the cities of Lousã and Castello Branco.

Following the Grand Departure in Portugal, the peloton will enter Spain via Extremadura. This autonomous neighborhood will host a mountain stage in Cáceres, between Plasencia and Villuercas Peak – a finish-line that returns to La Vuelta since making its debut in 2021. The subsequent day, the race will depart from Fuente del Maestre in Badajoz, and head South, with Seville as its first vacation spot.

Following a yr’s absence, Andalusia will once more be one in every of La Vuelta’s biggest protagonists with 4 levels held totally throughout the autonomous neighborhood, crossing 7 of its provinces. As soon as it arrives in Seville, the race will then proceed with a stage between Carrefour Sur in Jerez de la Frontera and Yunquera. Then, there might be one other stage with a doable dash to the finish-line between Archidona and Córdoba. The conclusion of the primary week will include two levels that might properly decide the race’s final result: first is a mid-mountain stage between Úbeda and Cazorla and, later, a high-mountain stage between Motril and Granada with three Class 1 mountain passes.

Mountains would be the absolute stars of the race’s second week, which can begin within the Province of Pontevedra with a stage between Ponteaereas and Baiona. The Campus Tecnológico Cortizo, in Padrón, will host each the beginning line and finish-line for Stage 11 and the Manzaneda Ski Resort, which has already hosted the peloton of the ladies’s version, will host Stage 12, after a departure from Ourense. The ultimate leg of the Galician a part of the race will conclude with a last mountain stage between Lugo and the Ancares Mountain Move. Ten years later, this setting, the protagonist of such victories as that of Alberto Contador in 2014 or Purito Rodríguez in 2012, will debut a brand new slope that has but to be seen in La Vuelta. Giving the riders no choice to get well, the weekend will carry levels held in León, between Villafranca del Bierzo and Villablino, and in Asturias, with a departure from Infiesto and a finish-line within the dreaded Cuitu Negru.

The third week of racing will begin within the North, with Asturias and Cantabria as the celebrities of the present. Following the second relaxation day, the ultimate week of La Vuelta 24 will depart from Luanco and conclude at Lagos de Covadonga – probably the most climbed mountain cross within the historical past of the race. The peloton will proceed driving via the Cantabrian Coast with Stage 17 held between Arnuero and Santander.

From then on, the peloton will start its descent in direction of Madrid with three levels that can happen between Vitoria-Gasteiz – Maeztu and the Izki Pure Park, Logroño and the Alto de Moncalvillo, and Villarcayo and Picón Blanco. Each the Alto de Moncalvillo and Picón Blanco made their current La Vuelta debuts with victories by Primoz Roglic (2020) and Rein Taaramäe (2021), respectively.

But once more, Madrid will host the La Vuelta’s grand finale – this time with a time trial that can begin on the Distrito Telefónica and can come to an finish on the Gran Vía in Madrid, in entrance of the Telefónica Constructing as a way to commemorate the corporate’s 100 years.

Mid-Mountain Prominence
True to its DNA, La Vuelta 24 continues to mirror its revolutionary character and that toughness that has characterised the race in recent times. Not solely will there be 9 high-altitude finales, but additionally one very demanding mid-mountain stage that can have an effect on the race’s final result. La Vuelta 24 brings collectively a mixture of mountain passes which can be already part of the race’s historical past, corresponding to Lagos de Covadonga, that can host a finish-line following a relaxation day for the very first time, and the current discoveries of Moncalvillo, Cuitu Negru and the beforehand unseen slope of the Ancares Mountain Move.

Portugal, A Pioneer That Will Go Down in Historical past
On the sixth of September 1997, Portugal and La Vuelta made historical past when the race started on international territory for the very first time. On the seventeenth of August 2024, 27 years later, historical past will repeat itself as Lisbon turns into the primary non-Spanish metropolis to host La Vuelta’s Grand Departure twice.

La Vuelta 24, At Residence with Rouvy
As in earlier years, the levels of La Vuelta may also be accomplished just about via ROUVY. Biking followers can achieve this utilizing a sensible indoor bike coach, a display screen and the ROUVY app. Likewise, till the 14th of January, all app customers will discover a ‘Finest Of La Vuelta 23’, that includes final version’s most notable levels. ROUVY, which mixes sports activities and expertise, is the number one indoor biking app providing a practical and immersive video expertise, that includes a collection of over 1,300 digital actuality routes everywhere in the world to select from.

Presentación del Recorrido La Vuelta 24

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