Here’s what we learned from the final Grand Tour of the season.
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Now that the Vuelta a España is in the books, we can voice some of the opinions that have been forming over the course of the race without worrying that a final twist will shake things up and make us look foolish.
The standings are official for the final Grand Tour of the year, so we can look back both at this race and Grand Tour season with a bit more perspective, and across three weeks of Vuelta racing – and after nine weeks of Grand Tour racing in total – we have learned a lot. Here are some of our biggest takeaways from the 2025 Vuelta a España.
The Vuelta podium you didn’t get to see
Cycling at its most pure: a podium made of coolers in a hotel carpark.
Vingegaard did what he had to do
In the two years since Vinegegaard last won a Grand Tour, UAE Team Emirates-XRG has displaced them as the sport’s top team. After Tadej Pogačar defeated Vingegaard yet again at the Tour de France, it felt like Vingegaard had to win this Vuelta a España. If he could not best a Pogačar-less field, Visma would have to think long and hard about the future and whether Vingegaard should continue to be the centerpiece of all the team’s ambitions.
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