The Vuelta kicks off

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The Vuelta started and I’m not very excited about it. Too much shit went down in professional cycling this last year, just too much. Maybe I’ll come around after a couple of stages and start to give a shit. But at the moment, I pretty much couldn’t care less.

Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) picked up where he left off, putting a nice bookend victory in Saturday’s 154.4km opener at the Vuelta a España to go along with his triumph in the final stage on the Champs Elysées at the Tour de France.

The brawny Italian hitched a ride on Milram’s setup train and out-kicked a superstar field to win for the eighth time this season ahead of three-time world champion Oscar Freire (Rabobank) and Alessandro Petacchi (Milram), who came through third.

Source: velonews.com

How long till the drug scandals at this one splash across the web? Oh yeah, this race is in Spain. Nothing short of a rider being found dead on the roadside would bring the police into it. Or a gynecologist with 147 bags of blood in his fridge. Well, you know what they say, when in Rome…

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3 Replies to “The Vuelta kicks off”

  1. …i know what cha mean…kinda weird, when the sport closest to yer heart & yer own activities, leaves ya feelin’ like “hey, so what ?…there’s probably gonna be more bullshit before it’s over”…

    …on top a that, i’m trying to subtly explain to the “ex” w/ her spanish parents, that, “well yes, baby, there are a lotta spanish riders at the top of the sport, but maybe, just maybe, not all of ’em are quite as good as they seem…”