One of the hardest stage of Vuelta's history:
Colladona (second category)
Cordal (second category)
Cobertoria (HC)
San Lorenzo (HC)
Farrapona (first category or HC)
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Netserk said:167 km
Asturiano said:Montero, the creator of the web I'm taking the images from, wanted to include this climb too but Unipublic didn't want because it included a bit of "sterrato".
jens_attacks said:happy for you guys who fought for this hard stages to happen over all the spanish forums
i still think nothing major will happen until the last 6 km of farrapona. until then farrapona is basically a false flat which will discourage any long range attack
an intxausti-bruseghin kind of attack might happen again but i don't expect any big gun to go before the last 6 km
Arredondo said:Well, we saw in 2010 how fantastic this stage was......
icefire said:It was 2011. And it taught the cycling world that Froome and Wiggo > Nibali
Arredondo said:Well, we saw in 2010 how fantastic this stage was......
Asturiano said: