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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?
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...
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?
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?
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...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 14
“I’m simply amazed that no one has selected Quintana, López or Simon Yates” Cycling Mole puts our pundits in their place
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 13
We are in accord with Moley tomorrow – unusually. Mollema, Kelderman, Kudus, Quintana or even J.Lo?
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...
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?
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...
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...
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…
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
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
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
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
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 1
An eight kilometre prologue – it’s got to be Rohan Dennis, surely? Or has it? Our picks for the Vuelta opener
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...
Chairman of the Board: the Greatest Cycling Board Games
Cycling Board Games celebrates its fifteenth birthday. Our feature from issue 54 on the best of collector Anki Toner’s 300-plus games
Vuelta 1983: How Hinault’s victory changed 80s cycling
With Fignon and Lemond as team mates, Bernard Hinault outraced a clique of Spanish talent to win the 1983 Vuelta. But the effort cost him dearly
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