La Vuelta 2025 route
The full route is to be announced on the 19th December, but they've just officially revealed the first three stages and start of stage four will be in Piedmont, Northern Italy.
I for one am very excited by this. I've often wondered what sort of cycling you might get in Northern Italy, and it's definitely high time someone brought a bike race there. Aside from two monuments, regular visits from the Giro, this year's Tour de France start and the Italian autumn classics there's next to no bike racing in the region.
Seems like stage four starts in Italy and heads into France (where they also do very little bike racing), but they won't tell us where it ends yet.
Details here.
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I really don't understand a Grand Tour having a grand depart in another country that already has a Grand Tour. It's stupid in the extreme.
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Agreed. I could see the point of visiting Portugal, or even Morocco, but France and Italy seems redundant.
I guess it comes down to money, like most things seem to.
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Id like to see the final stages being held in Northern Europe, maybe Belgium. People seem to have forgotten the cobbled areas up there.
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I hope stage 4 ends in France or we'll never hear the end of the complaints about rider welfare.
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Crazy, they go through my hometown in stage one… quite tempted to book a flight
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Agree. I really wish the Canaries or the Balearics needed the exposure that a Grand Depart brings.
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I guess it's possible to interpret it as ASO trying to piss RCS off
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