Tag: VUELTA
Top cyclist Pogacar misses starting Vuelta in Utrecht
Utrecht – Bad news for cycling enthusiasts in Utrecht: Tadej Pogacar skips the Vuelta a España. The Slovenian had the third major cycling round of the year on his list,…
More than a month before the Vuelta start in Utrecht: ‘Less complex than the Tour’
With the Vuelta, one of the three largest cycling rounds in the world comes to Utrecht and Brabant. How does the organization stand more than a month before the start?…
Team presentation at the Vredenburg, riders arrive by bike and leave with boats
Utrecht – The presentation of the 23 Vuelta teams is Thursday evening, August 18 in Utrecht. The riders arrive with the team cars and cycle through Hoog Catharijne to the…
Jaarbeurs pivot of Vuelta start – RTV Utrecht
Simone Richardson, project director of La Vuelta Holanda, is pleased that the Jaarbeurs is taking on this mega job. “We are delighted to be hosting the upcoming start of La…
Julian Alaphilippe: absent from the Tour de France, the Frenchman will do the Vuelta
ALAPHILIPPE. Absent from the Tour de France despite his desire to participate, the world champion will be at the start of the Tour of Spain on June 19. Summary While…
Utrechter Tusveld still hopes for Vuelta in his own city after Tour
Utrecht – Cyclist Martijn Tusveld heard a week after the Giro d’Italia that Team DSM also had his eye on him for the Tour de France. And that while he…
Have fun at Dikke Bandenrace in Leersum in the run-up to the start of Vuelta
And it was sometimes a lot of toil. Because while in a month and a half the cyclists will be traveling through the province on nice and light racing bicycles,…
C’mon C’mon theme song Vuelta: Latin with a Utrecht touch
Latin sounds with a Dutch beat will accompany this year’s Tour of Spain from the start in Utrecht to the finish in Madrid. The organization announced today the theme song…
Kick-off Vuelta festivities: Zoetemelk brings red leader’s jersey to Utrecht
In exactly one hundred days, the Vuelta will start with a team time trial through Utrecht. This makes ‘we’ the first city to organize the Tour, the Giro and the…
Podcast Wielaert takes on: the serious dilemmas of Truus van Lier and the scoop of the Vuelta song
She delved into documentation from the NIOD and the Utrecht Archives. And allowed herself the freedom to reconstruct Truus van Lier’s story with dialogues and all. She explains: ‘I thought:…