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Here’s the route – a flat and largely uncomplicated journey from the northern outskirts into the capital. They’ll go up and down the Castellana, which is Madrid’s reply to the Champs Elysées and often hosts – equally to the finale of the Tour de France – a number of laps in a street race format earlier than a remaining dash. This time, nevertheless, the riders shall be on their very own they usually’ll flip off the Castellana on the Plaza de Cibeles – the place the rostrum ceremony takes place and the place Spanish nationwide groups celebrated any worldwide trophies – and head up in the direction of the end line on the Gran Vía.
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The riders shall be setting off in reverse order of the final classification, separated by intervals of 1 minute right down to the highest 20, who’ll set off two minutes aside. We have specialists akin to Edoardo Affini (Visma-Lease a Bike) at 16:46, Mathias Vacek (Lidl-Trek) at 17:42, Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) at 17:52, and Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) at 18:06. But in any other case it is all eyes on the very again finish of the record for the final classification motion.
The first rider down the beginning ramp as we speak shall be Tim Naberman (DSM-Firmenich PostNL), at 16:30 native time (CET) – in order that’s simply over half an hour from now. The final would be the pink jersey, Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) at 19:04, with the Slovenian anticipated to seal a record-equalling fourth general Vuelta title.
Hello and welcome to our dwell protection of the ultimate stage of the Vuelta.