Blog - Vuelta a España 2014

MTN-Qhubeka – An insiders view of the 2014 Vuelta

The 2014 cycling season has now come to an end and while the African MTN-Qhubeka team is about to start preparing the 2015 season with a training camp from 23-30 November at the Spier Wine Farm in the Western Cape of South Africa, we felt it would be good to get back on how the team performed in its first Grand Tour, the Vuelta a España 2014.

With a new UCI Pro Continental Team licence for the team, for the 3rd year in a row, the African team is hoping to participate in the Tour de France this year and the invitation for the Tour of Qatar and for the Tour of Oman by A.S.O. (the same organisor as the Tour) might be a good start towards this goal.

MTN-Qhubeka in the 2014 Tour of Spain

The Tour of Spain 2014 race route on Google Maps

This Saturday the 3rd Grand Tour of the year, the Tour of Spain 2014, will start in Jerez de la Frontera with a nightly team time trial of 12.6 kilometers.

3,239.9 kilometers and 21 stages later, the Vuelta a España 2014 will end with an individual time trial around Santiago de Compostela.

In this article you'll find the race routes of this 69th edition of the Tour of Spain which will take place from 23 August till 14 September 2014 on Google Maps. Finally, you can open these maps in Google Earth in order to see a big version of them or to do a virtual fly-over of one or more of the stages!

If you'd like to know some background information and statistics of this Vuelta a España 2014, you can read the article ...

The teams selection for the Tour of Spain 2014 announced: MTN-Qhubeka finally has its Grand Tour!

After having seen the wildcards for the Giro d'Italia being attributed to other teams and since they were not really able to get an invitation for the Tour de France 2014, the African team finally sees its dream become true with its participation in a Grand Tour this year: the Tour of Spain 2014, or Vuelta a España as they say in Spain.

Indeed, today the selection of the teams was anounced by the organisor of the race* and MTN-Qhubeka is one of the 4 teams in addition to the 18 UCI ProTeams which have a guaranteed entry in all UCI WorldTour races.

The 18 UCI ProTeams

The Tour of Spain 2014: the riders on the road to Santiago de Compostela

On Saturday 11 January, the race route of the Tour of Spain 2014 was officially presented in the Conference Center of Cádiz and the Vuelta a España 2014, 69th edition of this Spanish Grand Tour, will take place from Saturday 23 August 2014 au Sunday 14 September 2014 between the province of Cádiz and Santiago de Compostela!

In this article you'll find all information which is currently available about the race route of the Tour of Spain 2014!

The race route of the Tour of Spain 2014 in numbers