More great news from Universal Sports - nine hours of daily coverage of La Vuelta a Espana from August 29 - September 20!
Here's a link to a press release about the four year deal: http://www.cyclingfans.com/node/440
I'm excited to be joining Steve Schlanger once again as we take you through the third and final Grand Tour of the year. From the looks of it, there are going to be some interesting battles and stories - Ivan Basso is targeting the event, after not racing the Tour de France earlier this month. Alexandre Vinokourov - the Kazak rider who was booted from the Tour de France after failing a doping test in 2007 has also announced his intentions to race. Vino held a press conference during the Tour this year and stated that he would be competing in this year's Vuelta after his two year suspension was over. VeloNews quoted him as saying “I have served my suspension and I do not see why I could not return. If Bruyneel does not want me, it will be Bruyneel who is leaving the team."
Johan Bruyneel is the new manager of team Astana, the former manager of the Discovery Channel and U.S. Postal teams of seven-time Tour champ Lance armstrong. He was hired to revamp team Astana following Vino's expulsion from the 2007 Tour de France. And if you look at this year's Tour, things have gone pretty well in the Astana team camp taking 1st, 3rd & 6th in the Geneeral Classification, and also winning the team competition at this year's Tour de France; in addition to that Alberto Contador leads the international rankings and Astana leads the team rankings.
This year, the Vuelta starts in The Netherlands before finishing 23 days and 2,035 miles later in Madrid, Spain.
The Vuelta will air daily on Universal Sports TV and on the internet at universalsports.com
If you are wondering if you can view Universal Sports on your TV, go to this link where you can enter your zip code and cable provider towards the top right of the page, or you can click on your state and look there: http://www.universalsports.tv/Universal_Sports_on_TV.html
Here's the link to the Vuelta's homepage: http://www.lavuelta.com/09/ingles/recorrido/resumen.asp
Viva la Vuelta!
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