A Vuelta rant

Is it really a grand tour? And what does that even mean?

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Just like that the Classics are over and it’s time to turn our attention to stage race szn because the first ‘grand tour’ of the year kicks off next Monday. 

Or does it? 

Sure, the Vuelta Feminas has a lot of the markers of a ‘grand tour’ (whatever that even means on the women’s side?) It’s connected to a men’s GT, it’s seven st…