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Vuelta - Stage 1, Sat Aug 24, Vilanova de Arousa - Sanxenxo, **Unmasked Spoilers**
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23-08-2013 7:21pm#1Stage 1, Vilanova de Arousa - Sanxenxo (TTT), 27 km
The Tour of Spain starts with the now traditional team time-trial. But there is a difference this year: the increased distance. The route is 27 km in length, compared to 16.5 km, 13.5 km, and 13 km in the '12, '11, and '10 editions of the race. This means that there will be bigger time differences in the overall classification at the end of stage 1 compared to the previous 3 years. The profile is quite flat and the only difficulties are a couple of tricky corners in the last 2 kilometres. The weather forecast is for the teams to have a tailwind for the majority of the route.
The stage should come down to a duel between Omega Pharma Quickstep and Astana, with OPQS being slight favourites. OPQS were narrowly beaten by Orica-Greenedge in the TTT in this year's Tour de France, and that was with a concussion. Although they don't have the likes of Sylvain Chavanel, Michal Kwiatkowski, Niki Terpstra and Peter Velits in the Vuelta squad, they still should be the team to beat. They are the current World TTT champions, and with the world championships less than a month away, they should be in top form.
Astana have brought a fantastic squad, and have some good TT-ers as well, including Janez Brajkovic (2011 Slovenian TT champion), Jakob Fuglsang (2010 & 2012 Danish TT champion), Andriy Grivko (5-time Ukrainian TT champion), Tanel Kangert (3-time Estonian TT champion) and of course Vincenzo Nibali who isn't half bad at TTs
Some of the teams who will be aiming to finish in the Top-5 include: Radioshack (they have Spartacus
); Movistar (they don't have Jonathan Castroviejo or Rui Costa, but are normally a well-drilled team); Sky (it'll be interesting to see how they perform in the TTT with no Wiggins, Froome or Porte); and Saxo-Tinkoff (Kreuziger, Morkov and even Nico Roche are some of the better TT-ers in the Vuelta this year).
Stage betting: Omega Pharma Quickstep 5/4; Astana 5/2; Radioshack Leopard 6/1; Movistar 7/1; Sky 12/1; and Orica-GreenEdge 16/1.
Live TV coverage on Eurosport1 from 5.45pm.
Highlights on Eurosport1 at 11.30pm and ITV4 at 10pm.
Live text-ticker will be here.15
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Astana win the TTT by 10" from Radioshack and OPQS. Nibali Brajkovic into the leader's jersey.
Carlos Betancur and Ag2r the big casualty of the day. Ride of the day comes from Net-app Endura.
1 Astana
2 RadioShack +10
3 Omega Pharma-QuickStep +16
4 Sky +22
5 Movistar +29
6 Saxo-Tinkoff +31
7 NetApp-Endura +35
8 BMC +36
9 ORICA-GreenEDGE +45
10 Belkin +49
I called it
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