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I don’t know how to start here. Fabio Aru’s win or the collapse of Tom Dumoulin in the penultimate stage of the Vuelta a Espana last Saturday.

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The 2015 Vuelta a Espana is now on its second week, and being the poor sibling of its more prestigious siblings, the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia, its the sort of last a last chance saloon to redeem the status of a superstar for the year, especially if a superstar (Vincenzo Nibali, e.g.) had nothing to show for this year.

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The 2014 Vuelta a España consist of  21 stages, yet, on the eve of stage 20, it was still touch and go at least to the overall leadership, going into the final stage, a 9.7km individual time trial.

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Not a lot of cycling fans enjoyed the Tour de France the moment race favorite Brit Chris Froome got off his Pinarello during stage 5 as a result of (what was to be revealed later) a broken wrist.

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In any competition, when you are playing catch up, you have to take risks. Alberto Contador has been known to be a risk taker when he’s behind. In last year’s VueltaaEspana, everybody thought that Purito Rodriguez was just waiting for the fat lady to sing. But on stage 17, Contador made a bold move that that no one foresaw that netted him the Vuelta.

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I always believed that in a Grand Tour, the race can be lost on the flat stages and won on the mountains or during time trials.

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The 2010 Vueltaa Espana, a three-week stage race in Spain, has seven (of 21) more stages to go before it concludes in Madrid yet it seemed that nobody seems to notice it.

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The US POSTAL team that Lance Armstrong took with him in his first win in 1999 was composed of six Americans, a French, a Luxemburger and a Norwegian. In LA's 7th and final tour, the team had more Spaniards (3) than Americans (2). This year, only George Hincapie was waving Old Glory in France.
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                    [Title] => Heartbreaking loss
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I don’t know how to start here. Fabio Aru’s win or the collapse of Tom Dumoulin in the penultimate stage of the Vuelta a Espana last Saturday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-13 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133418 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1420521 [AuthorName] => Jose Vicente Araneta [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Sports [SectionUrl] => cebu-sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1494315 [Title] => Vuelta Vuelta [Summary] =>

The 2015 Vuelta a Espana is now on its second week, and being the poor sibling of its more prestigious siblings, the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia, its the sort of last a last chance saloon to redeem the status of a superstar for the year, especially if a superstar (Vincenzo Nibali, e.g.) had nothing to show for this year.

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The 2014 Vuelta a España consist of  21 stages, yet, on the eve of stage 20, it was still touch and go at least to the overall leadership, going into the final stage, a 9.7km individual time trial.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133418 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1435501 [AuthorName] => JV Araneta [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Sports [SectionUrl] => cebu-sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1358903 [Title] => 2014 VueltaaEspana: Second chance [Summary] =>

Not a lot of cycling fans enjoyed the Tour de France the moment race favorite Brit Chris Froome got off his Pinarello during stage 5 as a result of (what was to be revealed later) a broken wrist.

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In any competition, when you are playing catch up, you have to take risks. Alberto Contador has been known to be a risk taker when he’s behind. In last year’s VueltaaEspana, everybody thought that Purito Rodriguez was just waiting for the fat lady to sing. But on stage 17, Contador made a bold move that that no one foresaw that netted him the Vuelta.

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I always believed that in a Grand Tour, the race can be lost on the flat stages and won on the mountains or during time trials.

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The 2010 Vueltaa Espana, a three-week stage race in Spain, has seven (of 21) more stages to go before it concludes in Madrid yet it seemed that nobody seems to notice it.

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The US POSTAL team that Lance Armstrong took with him in his first win in 1999 was composed of six Americans, a French, a Luxemburger and a Norwegian. In LA's 7th and final tour, the team had more Spaniards (3) than Americans (2). This year, only George Hincapie was waving Old Glory in France.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133418 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1121399 [AuthorName] => ALLEZ By Jose Vicente Araneta [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Sports [SectionUrl] => cebu-sports [URL] => ) ) )
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