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Tour de San Luis 2012

By Cycling News published 4 January 2012

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Tour de San Luis 2012

The UCI 2.1-rated Tour de San Luis, the most important race of the year in Argentina, offers an attractive alternative to riders looking to start their seasons with warm (if not actually sweltering) weather, solid competition and a challenging parcours in the shadow of the Andes mountains.

And with that in mind the sixth edition of the Tour de San Luis, whose seven stages cover 1051 kilometres from January 23 to 29, has attracted its strongest-ever field, headlined by five ProTour and six Professional Continental squads. Also on the start list are six Continental squads plus national teams from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay.

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