2018 Tour of Basque (Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco)

On Tap: Alto Usartza To Determine Winner At Pais Vasco

On Tap: Alto Usartza To Determine Winner At Pais Vasco

The Tour of the Basque Country's peloton queen stage features eight categorized climbs in just 122 kilometers.

Apr 6, 2018 by Ian Dille
Alto Usartza Awaits At Pais Vasco

The Stage

The Tour of the Basque Country's peloton queen stage features eight categorized climbs in just 122 kilometers. The stage culminates on the sheer slopes of Alto Usartza, which rises at a gradient of almost 13 percent over three kilometers. 

What To Watch For

Can Primoz Roglic and his LottoNL-Jumbo team (including American Sepp Kuss) defend against the Spanish Armada of Mikel Landa, as well as Movistar and Ion Izagirre and Bahrain-Merida? Respectively, Landa and Izagirre sit 1:57 and 2:13 behind Roglic.

Ranking The Favorites

  1. Primoz Roglic
  2. Mikel Landa
  3. Pello Bilbao
  4. Ion Izagirre
  5. Julian Alaphilippe

Watch Live

The Tour of the Basque Country is available on FloBikes to viewers in the U.S. and Latin America. Streaming starts at 8:30 AM CDT with a predicted finish of 10:30 AM CDT. 

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