Sport in Asturias Sport in Asturias Sport in Asturias has always been dominated by football. Other popular sport activities include basketball, cycling, handball, volleyball, roller hockey and rugby union. Asturias has also hosted a number of international events such as group stage games during the 1982 FIFA World Cup, series of the Davis Cup World Group, international roller hockey competitions, several cycling states of La Vuelta and several matches of the Spanish national football team. Asturias is also famous for several traditional sports, being the bowling the most important one. Association football is the most popular sport in Asturias. Sporting Gijón and Oviedo
Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica The Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica ("English": Tour of Costa Rica) is a bicycle racing stage race held annually since 1965 in Costa Rica. The men's Vuelta carries a UCI rating of 2.2 and is part of the UCI America Tour, which is one of six UCI Continental Circuits sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale, the sport's international governing body. For the women's race see; Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica. On 31 January 2018 the UCI announced that they had suspended a number of riders who competed in the 2017 edition of the race,