2015 Vuelta a España to have uphill finish on second day

Vuelta a España race director Javier Guillén has revealed details of the opening four stages of next year's race, which will start on August 22 with a short time trial between Puerto Banús and Marbella – it has still to be decided whether this will be a team or an individual test.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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