The 66th edition of La Vuelta a Asturias It starts tomorrow, Friday, and ends two days later after completing three stages in which the Emirati team UAE Team Emiratesincluding Mexican Isaac del Toro and the polish Rafal Majka At the top, it shows a high-level group threatening to dominate the exam from start to finish.
He UAE Team Emirates and the Movistar team is the only ‘World Tour’ peloton teams and the Asturian Pelayo Sanchez (Movistar Team) is the great asset of the Spanish team to fight for the general classification of a round in which he participated for the first time as the clear leader of his team, while the Italian. David Bais (Team Polti Kometa), winner of a stage in the last Giro, is another of the names that will be called to fight for the general classification.
Isaac del Toro (UAE), 20 years old, is one of those great season figures cyclist: stayed fourth in the Tirreno Adriatic that the Danish Vingegaard won and was seventh in Itzulia of the Basque Country.
He came next to her Rafal Majka (UAE), winner of three stages of the Tour de France and two of the Vuelta a Españabut the UAE squad also includes talented cyclists such as Portuguese Antonio Morgado (UAE) and New Zealander Finn Fisher-Black (UAE).
He The last Spaniard to win the Asturian tour was Igor Antón in 2015now nine years ago, while the Italian Lorenzo Fortunatonow in the range of Astana, was unable to defend his success from last year in the Principality as the Kazakh team will not compete on this occasion.
The 66th edition of the Vuelta a Asturias It will comprise 521 kilometers of route in total, the longest in recent years: like last year, on Friday the runners will go from Oviedo to Pola de Lenaa 181 km stage with five scoring pointsAlto de Cabruñana (3rd), Alto de las Estacas (2nd), Alto de las Cruces (2nd), Alto del Tenebreo (3rd) and El Cordal (1st).
The second stage, which is 200 kilometers, will start at Ribera de Arriba and ends in Ribadesellawhere the mountain is again starred by several climbs such as Puerto de San Tirso (3rd), Alto de la Gargantada (3rd), Alto del Torno (2nd) – with slopes of almost 9% – and a final stretch that promises to be interesting. with the Alto de la Robellada (3rd) and the Collau del Valle (3rd).
On Sunday, to finish the Asturian round, the participants will face the shortest stage: 140 km that will connect Benia de Onís and the central street of Uría to Oviedo.
Source: La Verdad
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