After a series of online qualification races on ROUVY, the grand finale of La Vuelta Virtual 2022 will be held as an in-person and online event in Madrid, Spain, on September 11th.
The virtual event grand finale is being held to coincide with the closing stage of the real-world La Vuelta 2022.
At the in-person event in Madrid, participants will use ZYCLE’s smart ZBikes. The qualified finalists will ride against former Olympian and MTB World Champion, José Hermida, in a battle for the crown of the virtual peloton.
La Vuelta Virtual 2022 is a series of events organized by ROUVY in which anyone can compete alongside the pros in real time, on various stages of Spain’s most prestigious cycling tour.
On September 11th, the ROUVY team will be in Spain to be at La Vuelta 2022 and build a physical podium to showcase the final stage of La Vuelta 2022 as a live show in the centre of Madrid. The virtual event gets under way at 17:00 CEST (live broadcast starts 16:45). The grand final event will be broadcast from Madrid live on Facebook and YouTube.
12 riders were selected to be at the grand finale in-person and compete next to athletes such as José Hermida and cyclist and video blogger, Cameron Jeffers.
In the real-world event, the pros will take on the flat 96.7km final stage (Stage 21), starting in Las Roza and winding to Madrid’s city centre. The La Vuelta Virtual 2022 finalists however are set to battle over a virtual rendition of the stage’s last 25km segment. This makes its way over Puente Sobre bridge, then past local landmarks such as the Casa de Campo. The virtual stage will likely end in a final bunch sprint finish, before the final victory celebrations and the crowning of the red-jersey winner.
ROUVY will donate €10 EUR, for every finisher of the LV Grand Final, to the local Spanish charity Fundación También which also organizes online home fitness classes. Fundación También has been developing social projects for 22 years providing sports activities for people with disabilities.
