Vuelta a España Vuelta 2026 route rumours

[ice&fire]

Stage profiles are already on the Vuelta web site

Am I seeing sterrato in the last climb of stage 6?

 

[gavia88]

stage 3 and 4 are immediately promesing

 

[Tim Cahill]

Stage profiles are already on the Vuelta web site

Nice one, so we don't have to watch this ***

Absolutely brutal start, already up to 2400 early on stage 4, if anyone isn't properly acclimatised it could be all over there and then.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Stage profiles are already on the Vuelta web site

Only the first 8 stages, I get internal server errors trying to access the rest.

A sterrato climb with a descent finish on stage 6, who blackmailed Javier Guillén into agreeing to that and where can I thank them?

 

[houtdffan]

far more ITT than the TDF, thats for sure

 

[Tim Cahill]

Only the first 8 stages, I get internal server errors trying to access the rest.

A sterrato climb with a descent finish on stage 6, who blackmailed Javier Guillén into agreeing to that and where can I thank them?

The later stages you can access, the week 2 ones you get the error

 

[YavorD]

far more ITT than the TDF, thats for sure

"Far more"?
I don't think the second TT is more than 25km.
That makes it a whole 9km more. Is that "far more"?

Edit: I'm wrong. The ITT is 32 kilometres, that's decent.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Going by the transfers, it seems like they flipped the order of some of the Andalucian stages at the last second? Would also explain why the Loja stage is a full week earlier than rumoured.

 

[ice&fire]

Stage 21 finishes in a murito!

 

[OlavEH]

The Andorra stage is 104 km and finish in Andorra la Vella after Ordino and Comella. Its actually hard to make it much worse than this.....

 

[YavorD]

I like stage 20

 

[Red Rick]

Looks like way too many sprints but my expectations were absolutely rock bottom and some mountain stages are very nice surprises.

Also TT surprisingly long.

 

[Monsi]

From how the quick run-through of the route looked like, I'm assuming stage 20 is the queen stage?

 

[Rockestar_33]

Three flat stages is week 3 is disappointing but doesn't look too bad overall.

Edit: Didn't realise one is an ITT.

 

[Monsi]

Stage 4 is Andorra is really short but it does provide launchpads for long attacks (although it is only stage 4).

 

[Red Rick]

Stage 21 finishes in a murito!

It appears they wish to crown the Roglstomp.

Long live the King.

 

[YavorD]

Stage 4 is Andorra is really short but it does provide launchpads for long attacks (although it is only stage 4).

Where exactly does it provide possibility for long range attacks? Ordino is far too easy IMO

 

[Red Rick]

Where exactly does it provide possibility for long range attacks? Ordino is far too easy IMO

More like hybrid breakaway/GC action with opportunists attacking in the breakaway or on Beixalis.

 

[Monsi]

Where exactly does it provide possibility for long range attacks? Ordino is far too easy IMO

That or Beixalis if someone is ambitious. It is very unlikely but chaos can still happen imo.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Going through the whole thing: stages 6, 12 and the final weekend are legitimately exciting, the rest of the route definitely isn't. Andorra should have been harder and there are too many easier days, especially given that some of the flatter stages are in areas where you could have done something more exciting (stages 2, 8, 11, 13 and 15 are all obvious examples). Overall, it's a decent effort considering that they had to change so much at such a late hour with the Canaries pulling out.

 

[YavorD]

That or Beixalis if someone is ambitious. It is very unlikely but chaos can still happen imo.

I would have liked the stage if it was stage 15, or stage 9 at the earliest.
On stage 4, I don't think anyone attacks on Beixalis.

 

[OlavEH]

Ordino is far too easy IMO

Ordino is much better from west than east. Almost 10 km at 7 % from that direction.

But Beixalis as the last climb would have been better. After Envalira they could have done Ordino east, then continued south to do Galina, then Comella on the way north again before Beixalis and descending to Andorra de la Vella. It still wouldn't have been much more than about 140-145 km.

 

[Monsi]

I would have liked the stage if it was stage 15, or stage 9 at the earliest.
On stage 4, I don't think anyone attacks on Beixalis.

Yeah I agree. Would've been better if that stage was in the 2nd or 3rd week.

 

[Red Rick]

They've got Nico Roche and Victor Langellotti on as special guests to present this years Tour of Monaco and Southern Spain!!!

Giro had Simon Yates and Nibali, money must be tight.

Fear not. The Dawg is here

 

[Rockestar_33]

As a big fan of The Originals I'm very excited that Manosque is featuring,