| Between the great characters excluded we can | | | | Spain, and will finish September 23rd in Madrid. |
| name last year's winner of the event Alexander | | | | The lack of "stars" in this event will be an opportunity |
| Vinokourov from Astana, Jan Ullrich, Ivan Basso, | | | | for new cyclist to shine, similar to what happened |
| Floyd Landis and Michael Rasmussen, all of them | | | | with Contador in the Tour of France. Some of the |
| tested positive in doping results. The current winner | | | | new names expected to be heard in the next races |
| of the Tour de France - Alberto Contador won't be | | | | are the Spanish Oscar Pereiro from Caisse d'Epargne, |
| in this race either due to an injury and is still enjoying | | | | the Russian Denis Menchov from Rabobank who won |
| his last victory. | | | | this event in 2005, the Australian Cadel Evans from |
| The Spanish Jose Luis Arrieta from AG2R will have | | | | Predictor - Lotto second in the Tour in 2006 and the |
| the number one in the Vuelta a España that | | | | Italian Damianco Cunego from Lampre winner of the |
| starts September 1st from Vigo, in the North of | | | | Giro de Italia in 2005. |