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Top Mañana 2019

Top Mañana 2019

The daily Vuelta prediction game, that made its debut last year and definitely wasn’t reverse engineered from a laboured pun, is back for 2019

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Fantasy cycling: Team of the Vuelta 2018

Fantasy cycling: Team of the Vuelta 2018

If there were no holds barred on putting together a cycling team of riders from this year’s Vuelta, this would be your super team

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 21

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 21

And so it ends. One last Vuelta hurrah in Madrid for the sprinters. How did the Rouleur tipsters do? Nae bad, says Moley, but don’t give...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 19

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 19

Into Andorra we go. Majka looks a contender, but Moley goes with Valverde. The taming of the shrewd?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 18

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 18

Look at that profile. It’s as flat as they come on the Vuelta. A day for the sprinters say our panel. But could a chancer...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 17

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 17

A mixed bag of picks from our panel as usual. Mollema looks a good punt for stage 17, but does Moley agree?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 16

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 16

A 32km time-trial tomorrow. If it’s not Rohan Dennis, then something is seriously wrong. Who else can we expect to see in the hot seat?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 15

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 15

David Hunter, AKA Cycling Mole, is a top tipster who spends far more time studying the odds than we do. In a daily battle of...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 13

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 13

We are in accord with Moley tomorrow – unusually. Mollema, Kelderman, Kudus, Quintana or even J.Lo?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 11

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 11

Breakaway chancers and a clutch of GC men: Rouleur’s team are split on how stage 11 of the Vuelta a España will pan out. But...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 10

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 10

Stage 10 should finish in a bunch sprint, and that’s what most on our panel are banking on. Could a fiendish climb in the final third...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 9

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 9

Big day in the mountains on Sunday. Could be one for Yates? Otherwise, we’ve gone with Pinot, Porte, Rolland, Quintana.  Holy Moley! Mollema?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 8

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 8

Each stage, the Rouleur panel of ‘experts’ will give their picks for the following day’s race. Top tipster Cycling Mole, meanwhile, will dismantle our choices...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 7

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 7

A mixed bag of picks from us: Trentin, Sagan, Benoot, Moreno, Prades. Moley says we are mad – it’s Valverde on his home roads of...

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On the right track: Elia Viviani and his move from Sky to Quick Step

On the right track: Elia Viviani and his move from Sky to Quick Step

Quick-Step’s Elia Viviani is enjoying his best-ever road season and the Rio Olympic Omnium champion sees evidence of an Italian track ‘risorgimento’ too. What’s going...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 6

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 6

Nacer Bouhanni to beat allcomers? Also featuring Van Poppel, Viviani, Nozzolo and Walsheid, but no Sagan. Cycling Mole thinks we need our bumps read…

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 5

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 5

It’s hotting up down in Spain. A lumpy 188km tomorrow, but can the sprinters’ teams hold it together? Our panel is split down the middle

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 4

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 4

One for Dan Martin, perhaps? Or Benoot? Maybe Lopez? None of the aforementioned, says Moley – he says Dylan is electric

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 3

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 3

Sprint or break? Break or sprint? Could go either way with this stage, but Cycling Mole goes for a sprinter

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 2

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 2

Valverde, Martin, Sagan, Roche or Fraile are the Rouleur panel’s picks. But Cycling Mole says no – it’s Kwiatkowski for the win

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Vuelta a España preview: the stages and contenders

Vuelta a España preview: the stages and contenders

For some it’s the season’s last chance saloon, for others it’s perfect ground for a Grand Tour debut. Whatever the motivation to ride La Vuelta...

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Adam Hansen – the man with a programme

Adam Hansen – the man with a programme

There’s more to this man than 20 consecutive Grand Tours, there’s two stage wins and he can fix your computer

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