If the goal with this Vuelta was to give all riders a free role and see who deserves to be given new contracts (maybe that wasn’t the goal, but if not I have no idea what the goal was), the results are not great. Mihkels is talented and probably still under contract for next year, but nobody showed much. Maybe Beloki deserves another year or two because he is so young and climbed well at times, but beyond that, nobody really showed themselves. To be honest, I didn’t expect much, but this was bad. Nerurkar has been such a disappointment this year after a very promising neo pro year.