Liquigas is always easy to spot.(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Mark Cavendish rides onto the stage for the team presentation(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Bbox Bouygues Telecom on the stage.(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The Katusha team is presented(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The Milram squad(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The AG2R-La Mondiale team of Vincent Lavenu(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The Footon-Servetto team lines up in Seville.(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Pedro Delgado was on hand for the teams presentation.(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Seville is quite a lovely city at night(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
HTC-Columbia's nine men for the Vuelta(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The Quick Step team(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The Cofidis team(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Team Sky is presented.(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Team Sky will be looking for results in the Vuelta.(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The Lampre-Farnese Vini team(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Alessandro Petacchi walks his machine to the team presentation.(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
The Euskaltel-Euskadi squad are a popular group in Spain.(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
FDJ is introduced(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Omega Pharma-Lotto, another Belgian team in the Vuelta.(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Footon-Servetto will be the first team to start this evening’s opening team time trial at the Vuelta a España. The time trial around the streets of Seville begins at the unusual night time of 22:04 CET.
The 22 teams taking part in this year's Tour of Spain were presented in a late-evening ceremony in Seville on Friday, the site of the opening stages.
The teams will tackle the 13km course at four-minute intervals, with the locally-sponsored Andalucía-CajaSur outfit the last team off, at 23:28. Iñigo Cuesta, riding a record 17th consecutive Vuelta, has been given the honour of wearing number one in this year’s race, and his soon to be defunct Cérvelo TestTeam is the penultimate team to take the start at 23:24.
Among the teams fancied to take the win are Team Saxo Bank, that starts at 23:16. Bjarne Riis' team has the advantage of starting after both Garmin-Transitions (23:04) and HTC-Columbia (22:24), both of whom are sending well-drilled units to Seville. Giro d’Italia team time trial winners Liquigas-Doimo (22:56) and a motivated Caisse d’Epargne team (23:12) featuring some solid rouleur are two other start times to note in the list.
Vuelta a España TTT start times:
22:04 Footon-Servetto-Fuji 22:08 AG2R 22:12 Team Milram 22:16 Team Katusha 22:20 BBOX Bouygues Telecom 22:24 Team HTC-Columbia 22:28 Quick Step 22:32 Omega Pharma-Lotto 22:36 FDJ 22:40 Euskaltel-Euskadi 22:44 Lampre-Farnese Vini 22:48 Team Sky 22:52 Cofidis 22:56 Liquigas-Doimo 23:00 Xacobeo Galicia 23:04 Garmin-Transitions 23:08 Astana 23:12 Caisse d'Epargne 23:16 Saxo Bank 23:20 Rabobank 23:24 Cervélo 23:28 Andalucía-CajaSur
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Barry Ryan was Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling’s Golden Generation, published by Gill Books.
