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Stage Info

Weather

18°C, light rain, no rain

Stage Breakdown

Hello everyone and welcome to the third stage of the Vuelta a Espana.

The crazyness of the first weekend is over, a classic sprint stage, ad proper uniperto like the vuelta knows how to do them, but only in Italy this time, now time for the sprinty stagethat is actually pretty hard.

The stage is on the Piemont part of the Piemont, as in geography, the term is used to describe the area that is a bit hilly before a mountain range, in english I guess you call that foothills.

This all takes place in the north of Torino and the second part of the stage is quite bumpy with a 5.5km climb at 6.5% with 1 km at nearly 10%, if someone wants to push, sprinter who don’t handle the climbs well will be gone, especially as the rest of the stage is still pretty bumpy, including the sprint which is 2km at 5%

With that in mind here are our predictions:

★★★ Pedersen

★★ Aular, Turner

★ Silva, Coquard, Stewart

I expect Lidl Trek to make this extra hard for Pedersen, leaving no chance to Philipsen or any other sprinter who don’t fancy climbs that much. Aular and Turner have both proved to be in good shape and able to challenge for the win, other winners seem unlikely.

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