Sam Bennett sprints to second straight stage win in Vuelta
BREDA, Netherlands: Sam Bennett of Bora won stage three of the Vuelta a Espana on Sunday, as he was again fastest in a sprint at the end of an almost entirely flat 193.2km run around Breda.
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Sam Bennett sprints to second straight Vuelta stage win
Irishman Sam Bennett clinched his second stage victory in a row by winning stage three of the Vuelta a España on Sunday, a 193km trek that started and finished in Breda.
Bennett sprints to second straight Vuelta stage win
Sam Bennett of Bora Hansgrohe clinched his second stage victory in a row by winning stage three of the Vuelta a Espana on Sunday (Aug 21), a 193km trek that started and finished in Breda.
La Vuelta: 'They're annoying me now!' - Adam Blythe compares Jumbo-Visma to Ineos after latest star signings
Adam Blythe joked about being annoyed at how dominant Jumbo-Visma are threatening to be after the team signed Wilco Kelderman and Dylan van Baarle for 2023 and beyond. Kelderman finished fifth in the 2021 Tour de France and third in the 2020 Giro d'Italia, while Van Baarle secured stunning victories at Paris-Roubaix this year and at Dwars door Vlaanderen in the last campaign. Ad Jumbo-Visma's impressive additions came on the same day it was announced that Richard Carapaz would leave the Ineos Grenadiers to join EF Education for the 2023 season.
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EF Education have announced they have signed Richard Carapaz to join their team for the 2023 cycling season. Carapaz will race at La Vuelta, which begins on Friday, which will be his last Grand Tour for Ineos Grenadiers. Ad He joined Ineos in 2020, finishing second at La Vuelta 2020, third at last year’s Tour de France and was runner-up to Jai Hindley at this year’s Tour de France.
Former winners and new contenders gear up for strongest Vuelta in years
A shadow was cast over the Vuelta a España by Thursday’s withdrawal of Nairo Quintana as the Colombian prepared his appeal against a positive test for the painkiller tramadol during the Tour de France, but even without the 2016 race winner, the final Grand Tour of 2022 is set to be contested by the race’s strongest field in recent years.
La Vuelta 2022: How to watch Spanish Grand Tour, TV and live stream details, dates and schedule
After a thrilling Giro d'Italia and Tour de France, La Vuelta will conclude this year’s Grand Tour season. The race in Spain will see the peloton tackle six flat stages – plus two more flat stages with high-altitude finishes – four hilly stages, seven mountain stages, a team time trial and an individual time trial. So who are the fancied names in the race for red? Ad Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) has not raced since abandoning the Tour ahead of Stage 15 meaning there is an unknown quantity about the Slovenian as he aims to win the Vuelta for the fourth consecutive year.
Primoz Roglic's to lose? The red jersey contenders hoping to surprise the Slovenian at La Vuelta 2022
A month after withdrawing from the Tour de France with a fractured vertebrae, Primoz Roglic will return to action at the Vuelta a Espana in his bid to win a fourth successive red jersey. A course that features fewer steep climbs than usual, an opening team time trial plus a 30km flat individual race against the clock, should suit the 32-year-old Slovenian and his Jumbo-Visma team – provided Roglic has fully recovered from the knock that forced him out of the Tour for a second year running.