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August 21, Stage 2: La Nucía - Playas de Orihuela 171.5km

  • 20-08-2011 6:06pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,458 ✭✭✭✭


    La Nucía - Playas de Orihuela

    A sprint finish by the Med

    The first climb of the 66th Vuelta comes just 28km into the opening road stage but thereafter, the route sticks closely to the Mediterranean coast. That keeps the profile flat and should ensure that the sprinters get their first chance for some elbows-out action. Alessandro Petacchi won last year’s stage in Orihuela but that town is actually some distance inland from its beaches where today’s finish is located. Although the road does rise steadily over the final kilometre to the finish, it doesn’t do so at a gradient that will concern the sprinters or interrupt any lead-out trains.

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Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    Looks set up for Cavendish?Know that part of the country well,friends have a place in Torrevieja!It would nice to be there.:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 6 No Diggity


    Yeah definitely a sprint finish today. Cycled that from Alicante to Orihuela a few times this summer and its pancake flat. Beautiful part of the country though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Jaysus.....bring back Phil and Paul please. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,458 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    that was a messy old sprint
    great win for sutton though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    yeah HTC seem to get it completley wrong and I think a lot were caught out by the 'sharpness' of the climb on the run in.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Johnners1878


    bcmf wrote: »
    Jaysus.....bring back Phil and Paul please. :(

    Indeed. Commentary was crap.

    Cav and the HTC boys got it all wrong today. Didn't help my Fantasy team one little bit.


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