Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2024 rumors

[Netserk]

I hope not

The forum doesn't have the upside-down smiley.

 

[Netserk]

1: Lisboa > Oeiras (ITT)
2: Cascais > Ourém
3: Lousã > Castelo Branco
4: Cáceres‎? > Pico Villuercas? OR Pico Pitolero?
5: Badajoz? > Sevilla?
6: > Yunquera
7: Archidona > Córdoba
8: Ubeda > Cazorla
9: Motril > Granada (Monachil, 2x Hazallanas)

10: Ponteareas > Baiona
11: Padron > Padron (ITT)
12: Lugo > Ancares
13: > Gijón
14: Luanco > Covadonga
15: Infiesto > Cuitu Negru

16: [Cantabria]?
17: > El Golobar
18: Villarcayo > Picón Blanco
19: Logroño > Moncalvillo
20: Vitoria-Gasteiz > Izki Natural Park
21: Las Tablas > Madrid

Ourense acogerá una etapa de La Vuelta España 2024

La Vuelta España regresa a Ourense en su edición de 2024: la provincia albergará una etapa que saldrá de la ciudad ourensana

www.laregion.es

H/t @ammattipyoraily

Another Galician stage?

1: Lisboa > Oeiras (ITT)
2: Cascais > Ourém
3: Lousã > Castelo Branco
4: Cáceres‎? > Pico Villuercas? OR Pico Pitolero?
5: Badajoz? > Sevilla?
6: > Yunquera
7: Archidona > Córdoba
8: Ubeda > Cazorla
9: Motril > Granada (Monachil, 2x Hazallanas)

10: Ponteareas > Baiona
11: Padron > Padron (ITT)
12: Lugo > Ancares
13: Ourense > [Ourense]
14: > Gijón
15: Luanco > Covadonga
16: Infiesto > Cuitu Negru

17: [Cantabria] > El Golobar
18: Vitoria-Gasteiz > Izki Natural Park
19: Logroño > Moncalvillo
20: Villarcayo > Picón Blanco
21: Las Tablas > Madrid

 

[Rob5091]

Whatever happened to Los Machucos and those crazy steep sections? Too many cows on the road?

 

[Max Rockatansky]

I guess they will skip Sra. da Graça and Torre to spare Jonas the humiliation of his numbers not being worthy of a portuguese continental team. But honestly... you can't go to Portugal for such poor stages.

 

[gavia88]

 

[ice&fire]

That's the stage to Granada: Monachil + 2xHazallanas

 

[Netserk]

Glad that rumour turned out true. Very nice stage to have before a rest day.

EDIT: Funny with the copying of the distance markers.

 

[gavia88]

 

[ice&fire]

Estacas de Trueba, Braguia, Caracol, Lunada, La Sía, Los Tornos, Picon Blanco

They're criss-crossing the border between Burgos and Cantabria

 

[gavia88]

 

[gavia88]

 

[ice&fire]

This looks like the Yunquera stage. The first major climb is either El Boyar o Las Palomas

 

[Netserk]

Cuitu Negru

 

[Netserk]

11: Padron > Padron (ITT)

This is not an ITT? so I guess that makes stage 16 an ITT?

 

[Netserk]

Madrid is the ITT. Hmm.

Good to have Covadonga after Cuitu Negru, but bad that it's on a Monday.

Last three stages all being "simple" GC stages is not so good.

 

[gavia88]

sprinters will not be to happy. Less sprint stages than Tour and Giro.

 

[Netserk]

1: Lisboa > Oeiras (ITT) 12 km
2: Cascais > Ourém
3: Lousã > Castelo Branco
4: Plasencia > Pico Villuercas
5: Fuente del Maestre > Sevilla
6: Jerez de la Frontera > Yunquera
7: Archidona > Córdoba
8: Ubeda > Cazorla
9: Motril > Granada

10: Ponteareas > Baiona
11: Padron > Padron
12: Ourense > Manzaneda
13: Lugo > Ancares
14: Villafranca del Bierzo > Villablino
15: Infiesto > Cuitu Negru
16: Luanco > Covadonga

17: Arnuero > Santander
18: Vitoria-Gasteiz > Izki Natural Park
19: Logroño > Moncalvillo
20: Villarcayo > Picón Blanco
21: Las Tablas > Madrid (ITT)

 

[ice&fire]

Ancares from Leon

 

[gavia88]

Ancares from Leon

the most Vuelta side of climb, short and steep

 

[Netserk]

 

[Devil's Elbow]

So many weird decisions. Seemingly some sort of flat loop after the final descent on stage 10, finishing at the pass rather than the summit at Manzaneda, Ancares from the wrong side (okay, that makes sense if León is paying but it's bookended by other weak options), weak side of Leitariegos with nothing before it on a descent finish, Estranguada on an otherwise-flat stage rather than stage 20, Tornos as the penultimate climb on stage 20, and once again very low on the TT mileage (do like Madrid being a TT though). On the plus side, the Hazallanas stage is exciting, there are barely any sprint stages (not out of the question that the last full sprint is stage 5 which is insane), the terrain is more varied than it's been in recent editions and the pacing seems fine. It's very much a mixed bag - I certainly don't dislike it, but I also feel like I could have liked it a lot more if they'd been a little more ambitious and/or sensible with certain stages.

 

[ice&fire]

La Estranguada in stage 17 at 100km from the finish

 

[gavia88]

super "weird" route indeed. I would say, a lot of good medium mountain stages. For the "high" mountain stages unfortunately they still have the reflex to finish on something steep and the most dificult climb of the day in most cases.

- I don't think I have seen so little sprint stages. Stage 5 is the last chance and stage 2 and 3 are not even a walk in the park to get a full sprint.
-lot of medium mountain stages with relevance for GC
-some really weird random stuff you didn't expect following the rumours the last week. For example the estranguada in what supposed to be a sprint stage.
- a lot of stages which good potentially give ambus if teams planning some tricky strategy
- quite a hard Vuelta, not many easy stages
- a little bit to little ITT
- still to many mountain top finishes (after Cuita Negra, the 2nd Andalucia stage should have a downhill finish for example)
-Granada stage is for Vuelta standards a masterpiece, but will it be to early in the race for early attacks?

 

[gavia88]

stage 14 would have been so much better if they had included El Acebo before the Leitariegos

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The main climbs, or at least as many as I can fit in a single post. Not sure on the stage 8 finish (it definitely isn't the one used in 2015).

Stage 4

Stage 6
(they don't do the final 1.5k)

Stage 7

Stage 9

Stage 10

Stage 11

Stage 12
(Only the section from Pobra de Trives to Estacion de Manzaneda, so ~9.5k to ~25.5k)

Stage 13

Stage 14 (lol)

Stage 15

Stage 16

(until the desvió at Lago Enol)

Stage 19

Stage 20

(first 7.2k only)