The Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera wrote itself into cycling folklore on Thursday. Well, not so much the city, but rather its enormous Carrefour supermarket, which stands proudly on its southern limits, and now boasts a stage start of the Vuelta a España.
Yes, that's right. A stage of the Vuelta started inside a supermarket. "You mean, like, in the car park, right?" No. I mean inside the supermarket. The peloton lined up on the tiled surface behind the tills, and rolled out through the exit doors to start the day, guided by the race leader Primož Roglič.
