19Aug 25
Saturday from Turin the Vuelta starts: hunt for Jonas Vingegaard
From the Grand Depart at the Gran Salida. After the tour, Vuelta also puts an all -Italian way on the plate with the first four Piedmontese stages. Twenty -three teams for a total of 184 runners and a man to beat who responds to the name of Jonas Vingegaardalready winner of two Tour de France and the only one able to try to compete with Tadeij Pogacar who, however, after thinking about it, at the round of Spain said no to focus on the world championship that runs in Rwanda at the end of September.
After Lisbon in 1997, Assen in 2009, Nîmes in 2017, Utrecht in 2022 and Lisbon Oeiras and Cascais in 2024, Saturday will start from Turin after the presentation of the teams and teams in the city center. To bring the eighteenth edition of the Spanish race on its streets, the Piedmont Region has put on the plate 4.5 million euros which should be widely rewarded by an economic and promotional impact guaranteed by a World Tour race followed by over 200 broadcasts in the world, which can boast over 15 thousand hours of media and television production and which, only in Spain, has an average audience equal to 1 million and 300 thousand spectators.
The first stage will start from the splendid palace of Venaria Reale in Turin and will end in Novara after 189 km; the second from Alba with uphill arrival in Limone Piemonte; The third from San Maurizio Canavese to get to Ceres, the fourth that will accompany the race beyond the Alps and propose other mountains, also facing Montinevro, will start from Susa to get to Voiron.
Hunting for jonas vingegaard So that two years ago the Vuelta would (perhaps) was already able to win it but was forced by order of stable and to avoid sparks with Primaz Roglic who then ran for Visma, to make a good face on a bad game leaving the pace in although Kuss who had found himself in the red jersey and arrived victorious at the finish escorted by his two captains. But the 28 -year -old from Danish will not be the only big one at the start. He will have to deal with the UAE-EMIRESG couple who focuses on the Portuguese João Almeida and the Spaniard Juan Ayuso And with a host of excellent runners able to play, if not the victory, certainly a podium. From Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), according to the last Giro d’Italia, to the Colombian Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenodiers) to the Canadian Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech), to the Australian Well O’Connor (Jayco-Alula), according to last year behind Primaz Roglic who will not be there this year and will leave the degrees of Captain of the Bora a Jai Hindley which he will have at his side (but perhaps also in front) Giulio Pellizzari. Among the blues eyes on Filippo Ganna aiming to win a stop, on Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) who will try to do the Tessa what but with an eye to the ranking as well as Antonio Tiberi Bahrain-Victorius who will have the trusted Damiano Caruso by his side. Out of ranking and out of competition Mads Pedersen of the Lidl Trek, because the former world champion and cyclamen shirt at the Giro has already seen that he can win almost everywhere and not only to the sprint.