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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 21
That was the Vuelta that was. A draw is not going to be enough for Cycling Mole to win this. For stage 21 he throws...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 20
Playing “break or bunch” for the last time at this year’s Vuelta. Can Alejandro Valverde say goodbye to the rainbow stripes in style?
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 19
It’s nearly over. Flat stage, with a bit of cobble action at the end. A day for the sprinters then, yes? But this is the...
Rouleur podcast: Orbea and Cycling Mole
Basque country riding with Orbea, top tipster Cycling Mole studies the Vuelta form, and Desire’s Start Clapp hankers after a vintage Vespa
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 13
Los Machucos beckons, a brute of a ramp to end stage 13. Valverde territory, Pogačar’s turf, or Lopez to leapfrog Alejandro?
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 12
Fraile? Izagirre? Jon Aberasturi? If we didn’t know better, we might think our panel was trying to provoke Cycling Mole. They’ve gone for breakaway but...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 11
Stage 11 could end in a sprint… but it won’t says our panel. Cycling Mole doesn’t think much of some of our picks but one...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 10
Stage 10 is individual time trial day, so all of our panel are going for Primoz Roglič, right? Apparently not. Do they know something the...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 9
Between them our panelists seem determined that Ineos are going to get something out of this Vuelta. Cycling Mole think Stage 9 is one for...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 8
Half of our panel think Stage 8’s single categorised climb isn’t steep enough to stop a sprint. Cycling Mole disagrees. Who’s going to be proved...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 7
Can the breakaway take three stages on the trot? Or will stage 7 finally be one for the GC men? Some of our panel are...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 6
A few of our panel hovered over Herrada, but no-one came close to Madrazo in Stage 5. Stage 6 looks the Costa del Ardennes, but...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 5
No question that La Vuelta’s stage 5 will be one for the climbers, but which climbers? Cycling Mole gets the red pen out to mark...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 4
Finally, some splits in the bunch. Sam Bennett didn’t let the pressure of being firm favourite phase him on Stage 3. Can he can deliver...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 3
No-one had Nairo, so still no score in our game. Casquettes will be consumed if Bora Hansgrohe’s Sam Bennett doesn’t deliver a result on Stage...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 2
A calamitous start for Jumbo-Visma in the TTT meant none of our panel, nor Cycling Mole, got a score on the board yesterday. Will they...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 1
The 2019 Vuelta a España begins, as is tradition, with a team time trial. There’s one obvious favourite but who on our panel will play...
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
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 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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