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Vuelta to include nocturnal time trial
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December 18, 2009, Friday
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NEXT year's Spanish Vuelta will include a team time trial run at night, race organizers said on Wednesday.
The inaugural "nocturnal" stage will kick off the 65th edition of the Spanish classic, and will see riders race the 16.5-kilometer leg through the streets of Seville from 9pm local time.
The 21-leg race begins in Seville on August 28 with riders crossing the Madrid finish line three weeks and 3,350 kilometers later.
The 2010 race includes six mountain-top finishes, one more than in 2009. A stage ending at Pal ski station brings the Pyrenees back onto the route after being left out in 2009. The 46-km stage 17 will be the only individual time trial, starting and finishing in the town of Penafiel near Valladolid.
The new night stage will begin with five "very年 technical" kilometers according to the organizers, ending at the landmark Torre del Oro.
Local riders welcomed the new-look route.
"It's an inspiring route, one which gives the climbers a lot of opportunities," said two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador.
"I'm really motivated, too, by the last mountainous stage, which goes through an area near Madrid I use regularly for training."
The inaugural "nocturnal" stage will kick off the 65th edition of the Spanish classic, and will see riders race the 16.5-kilometer leg through the streets of Seville from 9pm local time.
The 21-leg race begins in Seville on August 28 with riders crossing the Madrid finish line three weeks and 3,350 kilometers later.
The 2010 race includes six mountain-top finishes, one more than in 2009. A stage ending at Pal ski station brings the Pyrenees back onto the route after being left out in 2009. The 46-km stage 17 will be the only individual time trial, starting and finishing in the town of Penafiel near Valladolid.
The new night stage will begin with five "very年 technical" kilometers according to the organizers, ending at the landmark Torre del Oro.
Local riders welcomed the new-look route.
"It's an inspiring route, one which gives the climbers a lot of opportunities," said two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador.
"I'm really motivated, too, by the last mountainous stage, which goes through an area near Madrid I use regularly for training."
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