Posted on 26/07/2016 14:58
Starts on Saturday 20 August, with a 29km time trial, followed by about 5 days of relatively flat stages, then into the mountains. And in typical Vuelta style, there aren't an awful lot of flat roads after that!
It's too early for teams to be announced, but a number if riders have already thrown their hats into the ring.
Anyone care to chose a rider now, before all the good ones go? 
Posted on 03/09/2016 20:45
Great win, and well deserved too, by Robert Gesink. Grand chase by Simon Yates too, who finished 4th, and took time out of the race leaders. He's now moved up to 4th overall, just behind his team-mate Estaban Chaves. Nario Quintana still leads Chris Froome by the same amount as yesterday.He tried to get away a couple of times from Froome but couldn't manage it. Must be very frustating for him, having a shadow like that!!
Posted on 04/09/2016 16:10
Yes indeed, an exciting stage, but not quite the shake up that I expected.
Here are the results after Saturday's stage:
1st Nairo Quintana (IanH)
2nd Chris Froome (Kennine) at +54 seconds
3rd Esteban Chaves (TtDA 2) +2:01
4th Simon Yates
6th Alberto Contador (TtDA) +3.28
7th Samuel Sanchez
10th Daniel Moreno (Nellie) +5:52
19th Alejandro Valverde (Pliers) +10:14 (disaster!)
108th Tejay Van Garderen (Goldie) +1:45:30
Rtd Miquel Angel Lopez (Runrig)
The CT prize is still up for grabs!
Posted on 04/09/2016 16:14
Sunday's stage is only 118km and has two catagorised climbs and an uphill finish, but not as hard as yesterday.
Could someone have a go here? Will Simon Yates have enough left in the tank (or the inhaler? )
Will Quintana go again and will Froome be able to cover him again?
Questions, questions......
Posted on 04/09/2016 20:05
Flippin' 'eck!
Did Froome fall asleep? Did the Sky computer crash? Did Froome's team mates all take a group bung?
But let's not diminish a superb stage from Nairo Quintana to pull out 2.5 minutes on Froome to give him nearly 3.5 minutes in hand......even more than what he said he needed for the time trial.
Well done too to Contador who has kept fighting all the way, despite his injuries in the first week.
Brilliant stage! 
Posted on 04/09/2016 20:49
I think that Froome fell asleep, at the start. He should have been on the shoulder of Quitana fron the off. Looks as if he's cooked, although he did manage to limit his losses without most of the Sky team. He'll have to look out for Chaves now, who seems to be going from strenght to strength.
Posted on 04/09/2016 22:55
Wow, that was just nuts.
What the heck were Sky and Oreca doing, it must have been obvious to the team managers in the cars just what Movistar and Tinkov were up to. So why didn't they pull the break back early on? Were they spent?
Nuts.
Like I said yesterday, what will happen next?
Fantastic stuff.
Posted on 05/09/2016 09:21
Here are the results after Sunday's incredible stage:
1st Nairo Quintana (IanH)
2nd Chris Froome (Kennine) at +3:37 seconds
3rd Esteban Chaves (TtDA 2) +3:57
4th Alberto Contador (TtDA) +4:02
5th Simon Yates
6th Samuel Sanchez
11th Daniel Moreno (Nellie) +8:05
16th Alejandro Valverde (Pliers) +12:48
90th Tejay Van Garderen (Goldie) +2:41:25 (back in the top 100 
)
Rtd Miquel Angel Lopez (Runrig)
IanH