The VCV 2025 will start with a team time trial
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The 76th edition of the Valencian round of cycling will be held from 5 to 9 February 2025.
Valencia. 10 June 2024. The VCV – Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana will bring back a team time trial for its next edition. This is the main novelty announced by its General Director, Ángel Casero, at the press breakfast held this morning at the Sabadell Hub Empresa in Valencia. The Valencian cycling round, which will celebrate its 76th edition in 2025, will be held as usual in February, between Wednesday 5 and Sunday 9. In this meeting with the press, the VCV has also presented the media impact data obtained by the recent 75th VCV and the 6th VCV Féminas Gran Premio Tuawa, which continue their upward trend of recent years.
“We are delighted to be able to announce that for the VCV 2025 we are bringing back a team time trial to the route. It was something that the fans have been asking for every year and we have finally been able to do it. It is not easy to organise a stage of this type, but luckily we will once again experience a day as special as the ones we enjoyed in 2017 in Orihuela or 2018 between Benitatxell and Calpe,’ confirmed Ángel Casero to the Valencian press. ‘We can’t give more details yet, but as usual in the VCV, for 2025 we are preparing an attractive route in the five stages, with unpublished ports and excitement until the last second’, concluded the Valencian cyclist, champion of the Vuelta España in 2001 and General Director of the VCV – Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana since 2016.
It will be the third time in the last ten editions that the VCV has a team time trial on its route. The first, in 2017, between Orihuela and Orihuela Playa; and the second, in 2018, between Benitatxell and Calpe; both with a stage victory for the now defunct BMC Racing Team.
The press event was also attended by Fernando Canós, Deputy General Manager and Territorial Director of Banco Sabadell, main sponsor of the VCV since its return to the international calendar in 2016. “It is an honour for an entity such as Banco Sabadell to observe first-hand the growth experienced by a race such as the VCV – Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. We have been with Ángel Casero and his exceptional team for nine editions now, and we can say that we are just as excited as we were on the first day. We believe that the VCV is a perfect example of the Valencian territory structuring that we at Banco Sabadell have been promoting for decades. Cycling and its values are an ideal mechanism to show the world how much our land has to offer. I would like to thank Ángel Casero for giving us the opportunity to join this project which is a family and I trust that our paths will remain united for many years to come”, said Fernando Canós during his speech at the press conference.
The premiere of stage races in Europe
As has become customary in recent years, the VCV – Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana will kick off the European stage race season. The Valencian cycling round, however, will be moved back one week in the calendar, finishing on the second Sunday of February and not on the first Sunday as in recent editions. The VCV 2025 will start on Wednesday 5 February in a location yet to be announced and will finish on Sunday 9 February with its usual finish in Valencia.