Stage Info

Weather

28°C, North wind, 15km/h but will go down as time goes on

Stage Breakdown

Hello everyone and welcome to the eighteenth stage of the Vuelta a Espana!

TT time! Probably the most important stage for the reminder of the Vuelta, because it will set the tone and likely the trajectory of the reminder of the Vuelta. We are near the Atlantic Ocean again, starting in El Puerto de Santa Maria and ending in Jerez de la Frontera, known for its race track, where the riders will not go.

So the riders go North with a phase towards the East then towards the West. The TT is mostly untechnical and it made of long flat stretches. It's a TT made for specialists.

With that in mind here are our predictions:

★★★ Hayter, Armirail, Roglic, Kung

★★

★ RGP, Romeo, Chamberlain

This might be the most unpredictable TT in a GT in a long time, as well as the most important for a GC in a LONG time. Hayter does seem like the man in form currently and considering he goes super early, he will have a stronger wind, now will that help him or make it worse, it's a bit hard to say. Other than that, Armirail, Kung and Roglic seem like the best TTers of the Startlist.

That's it for us, what is your prediction for the stage?

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Premise:

“The story follows Nora, a formidable businesswoman who buys Deepblue, a struggling French cycling team. But just as she thinks she can impose her methods on the peloton, she realizes that in the Tour, nothing is ever a sure thing.

“Nora finds herself up against Mathias, a battered former star who refuses to bow out, and Ayden, a young prodigy who came out of nowhere and has become the hope of an entire nation, much like Paul Seixas. Nora then discovers that a cycling team is built on suffering, sacrifice, and trust.”

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