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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 5

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 5

No question that La Vuelta’s stage 5 will be one for the climbers, but which climbers? Cycling Mole gets the red pen out to mark...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 4

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 4

Finally, some splits in the bunch. Sam Bennett didn’t let the pressure of being firm favourite phase him on Stage 3. Can he can deliver...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 3

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 3

No-one had Nairo, so still no score in our game. Casquettes will be consumed if Bora Hansgrohe’s Sam Bennett doesn’t deliver a result on Stage...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 2

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 2

A calamitous start for Jumbo-Visma in the TTT meant none of our panel, nor Cycling Mole, got a score on the board yesterday. Will they...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 1

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 1

The 2019 Vuelta a España begins, as is tradition, with a team time trial. There’s one obvious favourite but who on our panel will play...

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Top Mañana 2019

Top Mañana 2019

The daily Vuelta prediction game, that made its debut last year and definitely wasn’t reverse engineered from a laboured pun, is back for 2019

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The Tour de France is over. Now what?

The Tour de France is over. Now what?

Does the finish of the Tour de France really mark the end of the cycling season? Of course it doesn’t. Who, in fact, would even...

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Fantasy cycling: Team of the Vuelta 2018

Fantasy cycling: Team of the Vuelta 2018

If there were no holds barred on putting together a cycling team of riders from this year’s Vuelta, this would be your super team

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 21

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 21

And so it ends. One last Vuelta hurrah in Madrid for the sprinters. How did the Rouleur tipsters do? Nae bad, says Moley, but don’t give...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 20

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 20

A mere 97km to go in the GC battle. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot… Yates, Valverde, Quintana, or a left field choice?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 19

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 19

Into Andorra we go. Majka looks a contender, but Moley goes with Valverde. The taming of the shrewd?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 18

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 18

Look at that profile. It’s as flat as they come on the Vuelta. A day for the sprinters say our panel. But could a chancer...

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Maintaining a profile: cycling’s most baffling elevation graphics

Maintaining a profile: cycling’s most baffling elevation graphics

What information can you garner about a race from it’s elevation profile? That depends on how it’s presented

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 17

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 17

A mixed bag of picks from our panel as usual. Mollema looks a good punt for stage 17, but does Moley agree?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 16

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 16

A 32km time-trial tomorrow. If it’s not Rohan Dennis, then something is seriously wrong. Who else can we expect to see in the hot seat?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 15

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 15

David Hunter, AKA Cycling Mole, is a top tipster who spends far more time studying the odds than we do. In a daily battle of...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 14

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 14

“I’m simply amazed that no one has selected Quintana, López or Simon Yates” Cycling Mole puts our pundits in their place

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 13

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 13

We are in accord with Moley tomorrow – unusually. Mollema, Kelderman, Kudus, Quintana or even J.Lo?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 11

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 11

Breakaway chancers and a clutch of GC men: Rouleur’s team are split on how stage 11 of the Vuelta a España will pan out. But...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 10

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 10

Stage 10 should finish in a bunch sprint, and that’s what most on our panel are banking on. Could a fiendish climb in the final third...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 9

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 9

Big day in the mountains on Sunday. Could be one for Yates? Otherwise, we’ve gone with Pinot, Porte, Rolland, Quintana.  Holy Moley! Mollema?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 8

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 8

Each stage, the Rouleur panel of ‘experts’ will give their picks for the following day’s race. Top tipster Cycling Mole, meanwhile, will dismantle our choices...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 7

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 7

A mixed bag of picks from us: Trentin, Sagan, Benoot, Moreno, Prades. Moley says we are mad – it’s Valverde on his home roads of...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 6

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 6

Nacer Bouhanni to beat allcomers? Also featuring Van Poppel, Viviani, Nozzolo and Walsheid, but no Sagan. Cycling Mole thinks we need our bumps read…

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 5

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 5

It’s hotting up down in Spain. A lumpy 188km tomorrow, but can the sprinters’ teams hold it together? Our panel is split down the middle

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 4

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 4

One for Dan Martin, perhaps? Or Benoot? Maybe Lopez? None of the aforementioned, says Moley – he says Dylan is electric

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 3

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 3

Sprint or break? Break or sprint? Could go either way with this stage, but Cycling Mole goes for a sprinter

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 2

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 2

Valverde, Martin, Sagan, Roche or Fraile are the Rouleur panel’s picks. But Cycling Mole says no – it’s Kwiatkowski for the win

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 1

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 1

An eight kilometre prologue – it’s got to be Rohan Dennis, surely? Or has it? Our picks for the Vuelta opener

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Vuelta a España preview: the stages and contenders

Vuelta a España preview: the stages and contenders

For some it’s the season’s last chance saloon, for others it’s perfect ground for a Grand Tour debut. Whatever the motivation to ride La Vuelta...

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