Pezcyclingnews: Eurotrash Crazy Vuelta Monday!



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Only two days into the 2015 Vuelta a Espaa and it has been controversy all the way. Arguing over the stage 1 team time trial course and the expulsion of Vincenzo Nibali on stage 2 for holding on to his team car. We have all the results, reports and video from the Vuelta, USA Pro Challenge and the Vattenfall Cyclassics. Plus more contract news and video of the Nibali offence. Monday coffee. TOP STORY: When is a race not a race?When it’s the first stage of the 2015 Vuelta a Espaa. The Spanish Grand Tour started on Saturday with controversy as the course was condemned as unsafe to race on by the riders and in the end it was decided by the UCI that the result would not count towards the overall. It had been reported that both the UCI and the riders union had previously OK’d the course and it was only when the riders actually tried the course for themselves that the complaints started. In the end there was an agreement between all concerned that the time would not count, although Unipublic, the Vuelta organizers, were less than pleased with the decision. In the end there were no crashes and the winning BMC team raced at over 54 kilometers an hour over the 7.4 kilometer test, which isn’t hanging about. BMC’s team leaders, Samu Sanchez and Darwin Atapuma like most of the other GC men, eased up to finish behind the front men in safety. La Vuelta’15 really...

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