Triple Vuelta a Espana winner Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) has said that the 2017 route contains too much time trialling for his liking.
Contador has confirmed his 2017 will be built around targeting the Tour de France in July and refused to say if he will be in Nimes on August 19 for the start of the Vuelta a Espana during an exclusive interview with Cyclingnews. A decision could depend on his form after the Tour de France and his clear displeasure about the route.
“The appealing thing about the Vuelta is that it’s my home country’s Grand Tour and that makes it special. But we’ll have to see [regarding his participation] further down the line,” he said.
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The 2017 Vuelta route has a 42-kilometre time trial on stage 16, running from the Circuito de Navarra to Logrono. Initial reports say it will be largely flat and technical. The 2017 Vuelta route also features nine summit finishes.
Interviewed by El País newspaper, Contador - fourth in the 2016 Vuelta and with victories in the Spanish Grand Tour in 2008, 2012 and 2014, argued that this was “too much time trialling and too flat.” “I would have liked it [the time trial] to have had a categorized climb,” he said.
“I also don’t like where it is placed in the race schedule, just after the Sierra Nevada stage. It should have come before, so that everybody who lost time in the time trial then had to fight hard in the mountains and maybe take more risks.”
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