The city of Utrechtthe fourth most populous person in Netherlandsis now privileged to begin the 77th edition of La Vueltaand it is done using the team time trial, a modality that is no longer popular but provides a good show and requires great concentration for the cyclists.
The last time the Spanish round scheduled a collective time trial was in 2019 in Salt pans of Torrevieja (Alicante), though with a smaller distance than now. Then the victory went to Astana at a distance of 13.4 kilometers, if today is 23.3 kilometers, although the itinerary does not show much difficulty.
True to his courage, the return includes a team time trial, a proposition that the Tour and the Giro seem to have forgotten. The last time the ‘Big Loop’ CRE hosted in 2019, at Brussels, Belgium), in the victory of Jumbo, at a distance of 27.6 km. You have to go back further to find a group time trial in ‘Corsa Rosa’, until 2015, with the success of Origa Green on an itinerary of 17.6 kilometers.
Source: La Verdad
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