Tour de France contenders Alberto Contador, Carlos Sastre, Cadel Evans and the Schleck brothers will be among the cyclists competing at the Vuelta al Pais Vasco (Tour of Basque Country) next week.
The six stage race courses through the mostly mountainous Basque countryside of Spain. The ProTour race runs Monday through Saturday and features a summit finish at the Sanctuary of Arrate on Wednesday and an individual time trial finale on Saturday.
Universal Sports is offering free, live online coverage of the race all six days. Check its Tour of Basque Country dashboard for details. Highlights, photos and breaking news from the race will also be available there. It's a “world feed,” so viewers fill in their own commentary.
The Universal Sports TV network (check local listing) is also offering same day coverage from noon to 1:30 p.m. (ET).
Contador is the defending champion of the 514-mile race that features 34 classified climbs along its route.
Although the Spaniard appeared to have some trouble during Paris-Nice, he will be joined by Astana's “A” team of domestiques, consisting of Haimar Zubeldia, Yaroslav Popovych, Sergio Paulinho, José Luis Rubiera, Chris Horner, Jesús Hernández and Alexsandr Dyachenko, reports CyclingNews.
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