
Along with Flanders, the Basque Country is the most cycling-crazy region. In July, the Tour de France starts in Bilbao and this week its own WorldTour race is on the programme. The first stages are relatively easy this year and offer chances to fast men. After that, it's the GC men's turn on the iconic short, steep, narrow climbs with rows of thick crowds along the sides.
Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard starts as favourite, but does not face an easy week. With Enric Mas, David Gaudu, Mikel Landa, Pello Bilbao, Sergio Higuita, the Yates brothers and defending champion Daniel Martínez, the field of competitors is to be savoured.
Why play Fantasy Cycling?
- Your engagement with cycling will further increase. It is not about one rider, but 13 riders who need to perform for you!
- For only $10,69/€10/£8,88 you will get many extra hours of entertainment before the start of the race and even more hours of entertainment during Itzulia Basque Country.
- If you manage to beat the other players (there are 61 prizes in General Classification), you can also win nice cash prizes (1st prize $745/€700/£620)!
Now it is also possible for the USA to play at Zweeler!
Legal residents physically located in any of the fifty (50) states and Washington, DC, excluding Arizona, Arkansas,Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington are eligible to open A User Account and participate in Contests.
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The Fantasy Itzulia Basque Country starts on Monday 3 April 2023 at 13:21.
You have a budget of 170 million euro to buy 15 riders for the starting line up and 32 million euro budget to pick 3 substitutes. You can win points for every stage and for the General Classification.
When a rider does not start in a stage, then the first available substitute takes his place. The points of the drop-out will remain in your total points scored, the points of the substitute will only count from start of the next stage. Be aware that a rider, who is not available on the startlist when the game starts, will not be replaced!
When a rider does not start in a stage, the rider with a value closest to that of the rider withdrawn from the race takes his place. An example: You have Wout van Aert in your team with a value of 15,0 million. As substitutes you have Egan Bernal (27,0 million), Caleb Ewan (11,0 million) and Marc Hirschi (10,0 million). In this example, Ewan will take the place of Van Aert because his value is closest to 15,0 million.
When you have two substitutes with the same difference in value, then the rider with the highest value will take his place. If a rider with a value of 10,5 million, in the above example, is not starting in the race, then Ewan will take his place. If there are two riders with the same difference and the same value, the rider on the highest position of the substitute list will enter your team.
The game will cost €10 per team and will start with a guaranteed amount of $3,700/ €3,500/ £3,075 in prizes. The first prize will be $745/€700/£620 (61 GC prizes).
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- Surely the UCI and the race organisers have a responsibility to ensure the best medical care is available to riders when incidents like this happen. All very well pushing for global expansion but not so good if riders lives are put at risk because medical support is not up to scratch.Andy12306-11-2026
- Well it clearly helps that this was Pidcock's own car, no?Occam06-11-2026
- The American performance at the World's road race was a masterclass in cycling tactics. If it wasn't McNulty, it might well have been Jorgensen or Simmons to take off and win in a solo break.Occam06-11-2026
- What a gimmick
Rafionain-Glas06-11-2026 - Thats only cause he rides for UAE. In any other team he would be captain in many races atleast. UAE is just to crazymiguel06-11-2026
- He seems to be the rare athlete whose passion and curiosity about life beyond his sport equals his extraordinary achievements in it. It would be great for him to risk less of that life. He seems very grateful and joyful for what he has already attained.
MarkFour06-11-2026 - As much as I admire and even revere Wout, the less I know about his backside the better.MidnightRider06-11-2026
- Ok, Walt 🤣... Vingegaard would be lucky to get on the poduim. He would not beat Seixas or Del Toro, let alone TP. Then there are the Americans...BD06-11-2026
- So, for starters. Cycling is a saturated, static/dying sport in traditional lands, it will not have resurgences like eg running occasionally does because of several obstacular (yes, I know that’s not a word but don’t make me point out the obvious at your expense) factors. Obviously, like almost everything involving money, there is a desire/need/advantage to growth and that can only come from (developing or just testing) new markets. For me, the WC is the obvious and best choice for several reasons, it comes at the end of the season so is less critical season risk wise, it is not a “pro” team race but nation based which makes integration of uncommon participation more natural. It is a vehicle for redistribution (one of a very limited number of available mechanisms to develop new markers fairly) that the fixed calendar doesn’t allow and it helps make budgets fairer over the long run (moving the whole circus to everywhere evens out everyone’s budget as opposed to having everyone always come to the same location.Jumpyjohn06-11-2026
- Sad that a more refreshing article like this, which could generate discussion in a number of directions, gets completely ignored for the importance of debating the level of superiority of one rider into every single last detail, including a majority of totally hypothetical ones. People complain there is no news in the off season and it’s boring but don’t realise how boring it is to review the same old discussion over and over again, several times a day. In fact, you’d almost think this was a rider fan website. Instead of complaining about the FREE (as long as you pay attention to data use if not unlimited coz this site consumes almost as much for loading Youtube) content, the presence of cv of authors (for the missed obvious reason that it makes it easier to insert extra advertising without changing formats), the lack of quality/checking and depth of articles, why not also think about the content, quality and variety of posts that everyone can contribute to? The platform becomes irrelevant when discussion is interesting.Jumpyjohn06-11-2026
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