The Vuelta a España 2010: Tour of Spain

The Vuelta starts on the 28th August, and although it never gets the same attention as the Giro or Tour de France, I thought it deserved a thread.

Tips to win?

Schlecks are in it together, also Sastre and Menchov. Some big name are out, including last years winner Valverde who is serving a ban.

The road.cc virtual tour was fun last time with the LFGSS league, and I probably got more involved in the Tour de France because of it. The Vuelta league Id is: **16351 **if you want to join.

Never followed it but will do this year, quite looking forward to it

gonna join that league thing too, not that I know enough to do though

In.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/aug/25/mark-cavendish-htc-columbia-spain

Bit of UK interest as well this time.

"Our first goal is to get an early stage win with Mark," said Hoffman, who denied that Cavendish plans to drop out before the end to focus on the road race in October's World Championships."

The LFGSS Fantasy League is really hotting up. I think my "names out of a hat" selection technique will pay dividends.

My boys are back after the ass-kicking they got in the Rolla league.

And this time they shall be not winning again, but in style!

Marco (No Skillz Shimano)

Where's good for streaming the Vuelta? Not fussed about it being live.

I tried to get the eurosport player but it didn't work with my mac.

Some links usually appear here nearer the time it's going to start:

http://www.myp2p.eu/competition.php?competitionid=&part=sports&discipline=cycling

Where's good for streaming the Vuelta? Not fussed about it being live.

I tried to get the eurosport player but it didn't work with my mac.

Eurosport player should work on the mac, just have to make sure Silverlight is installed.

Also try cyclingfans.tv for hooky links

daily highlights will be available free on cycling.tv too

8.30 tonight on Eurosport

Eurosport still seems to be showing Rally racing... waiting hopefully for some cycling to start still.

Edit: No worries, starting now 9pm on Eurosport 1.** Night-time** team time trial!

got a link for live vuelta atm:

http://www.fromsport.com/v-0/4/40/v-44119.html

Looks like I managed to balls up my entry for the fantasy league... Mysteriously I don't seem to have any riders anymore - Nil Points.

same thing happened to me, set it all up and since there was no save button i thought it was automatic.... but no, so no league for me either

Just one stage. Get back in there, boys!

Just one stage. Get back in there, boys!

I tried... but after stage 1 it let me select a team but since I had no credits I couldn't afford anyone so I'm still stuck with nothing. I may try to set up a new account this evening.

Mine's fucked up too. Will try and sort it tonight during the "transfer window".

Ouch 23% finish !!

After doing Burgess Hill at the weekend (Yorks and Cobb Lane) that looked v painful .. :)

Catching up with some Vuelta..

Love Cav's bunnyhop over the line the other day and yesterday the Anton (leader) crashes out with 6k to go, totally shredded. Poor bloke. Mental crowds at the finish.

Crowds were mental at the end of 14.

Totally forgot about the fantasy league, I've still got Ian Stannard on my team...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXbJTM11_bo

WOW what a finish. That was an amazing climb at the end by Mosquera. Nibali almost stole it from him though, such an exciting finish.

It's certainly been a good Vuelta in terms of rising the profile of the race. More interesting locations, more fan support, lots of lead changes. They still need to work on the logistics of that last climb, but the concrete track and the name definitely make it memorable.

WOW what a finish. That was an amazing climb at the end by Mosquera. Nibali almost stole it from him though, such an exciting finish.

Yeah, amazing. Really brave attempt to claw back the 40-odd second deficit on the GC, and fantastic tenacity from Nibali to deny it.

10 laps of industrial wasteland don't really compare :/