TakeVuelta5 weeks ago
More than half the teams at Vuelta a España 2026 voted to neutralize stage 21's Granada finale over safety concerns. The Vuelta and UCI both want the stage to run as planned anyway — a majority of the peloton just got outvoted on its own safety.
The circuit in question is raced four times, each lap including a partially cobbled 2.1 km climb at 6.6% through narrow urban streets. Options on the table range from freezing GC times before the final laps to a full redesign, but none of them require team buy-in to happen. Recent precedent — Montmartre in the last two Tours de France, Milan at the 2026 Giro — shows organizers will neutralize when they choose to. Here, with riders asking first, the answer so far is no.
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