Cycling: 2018 Vuelta To Begin In Malaga

Cycling: 2018 Vuelta to begin in Malaga

Next year's Vuelta a Espana will start with a time trial in Malaga, race organisers announced

NNMES, France, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Aug, 2017 ) - Next year's Vuelta a Espana will start with a time trial in Malaga, race organisers announced on Saturday. "The (2018) Vuelta will start August 25 in Malaga," race director Javier Guillen told reporters in the French city of Nimes.

The 2017 edition begins later Saturday in Nimes, just the third time the race has started outside of Spain. It set off from the Portuguese capital Lisbon in 1997 and from Assen in the Netherlands in 2009. Security will be firmly in the spotlight following the terror attacks in Catalonia as the three-week race enters Spain on Tuesday with a stage finishing in Tarragona.