Vuelta Tweets of the Week : All smizes, boiling heat and burning cars!

The second week of Vuelta a Espana 2021 and we’ve had some great stage finishes, a thrilled red jersey and lots of emotion. We’ve also had a lot of racing elsewhere, which included a flaming car on the course! They’ll try anything to stop Remco Evenepoel

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Vuelta Tweets of the Week : Spice, heat and shower cams

Yes, it’s time for the hottest race on record – the spicy Vuelta a Espana. While we love the craziness of the Vuelta, sometimes it’s the languor of those uneventful stages that brings out the spice and Tweet heat from fans that is GOLD for this column. And we’ll be serving it up through the whole three weeks. Vamos!

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VeloVoices Podcast 163: Plan B, plan C, plan for jackets, plan for small horses

Kathi, Midge and Euan get together after a week of two simultaneous grand tours and try to have coherent thoughts!

  • Have Ineos really reinvented cycling to win the Giro? (clue: no)
  • Sunweb and Quickstep impress the hell out of us.
  • How hard is it to put on a jacket?
  • What next for the “old-timers”?
  • Can the Vuelta get any more nuts?

From Jai to Joao and from Hugh Carthy to horses, we manage to cover it all* as the action moved between Italy and Spain.

*we maybe spent about ten seconds discussing the actual winner of the Giro.

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Reviews

You’re race reviews are here:

Giro d’Italia:

Stage 16

Stage 17

Stage 18

Stage 19

Stage 20

Stage 21

Vuelta a Espana:

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 5

Stage 6

Tweets of the Week