LA VUELTA 2016 - THE INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL STAGE WILL LEAVE XÀBIA
The stage will take place on September 9th and will feature more than three hours of live TV broadcast
Three hours of live television, 1,500 riders and technical support staff and more than one hundred accredited journalists who will send an image of Xàbia across Europe; these are some of the figures placed on the table at a technical meeting held at the Ayuntamiento de Xàbia to plan the individual time trial stage of the 'Vuelta Ciclista de España', one of the three major European professional cycling races known collectively as the 'Grand Tours'.
The stage will take place on Friday 9th September and will link Xàbia with Calp along a 39 kilometre long route that will also pass through El Poble Nou de Benitatxell, Teulada and Moraira. The leg, the 19th stage of a total of 21, is likely to produce the winner of the 2016 edition, the 71st Vuelta a España.
The organisers of the race explained that a time trial has nothing to do with the rest of the stages since the riders leave one by one for an individual test and therefore coverage of the departures at the starting line is almost constant throughout the three-hour broadcast. In Xàbia, the area that has been selected is Duanes de la Mar which offers an excellent view of the bay as well as provides ample parking and transit of team support vehicles and press cars.
Mayor José Chulvi said that the departure next to the sea and the first kilometres of the stage that will decide the winner of the Vuelta a España will take place within the bay of Xàbia and will be an unbeatable tool of international promotion for the town. The stage will be held just a day after the end of the fiestas of Mare de Déu de Loreto in the port so the zone that will be used will already have been vacated and this will facilitate installation work for the race.
The Ayuntamiento de Xàbia, along with the Policía Local and the Department of Tourism, have already established a work schedule with the organisers of the Vuelta a España to have everything prepared well ahead of September 9th. The work will be aimed at promotion of the event long before the stage takes place as well as resolving the logistical challenges of organising an individual time trial.
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