Spain

There are stages in which the geography seems to have been designed with little sympathy for cyclists. Stage 9 of the 2026 Vuelta a España is one of them. From the Mediterranean at Villajoyosa, the road turns almost immediately towards…

There is always more than one journey hidden inside a cycling stage. The first is the one we watch: riders attacking and chasing, gaps opening and closing, gradients rising on the screen and the number of kilometres to the finish…