Vuelta a Espana 2020 - Chris Froome confirmed in Ineos' roster, Primoz Roglic on for Jumbo-Visma

ByReuters

Published 15/10/2020 at 12:56 GMT

The four-time Tour de France champion, who has been struggling to hit top form since returning from a career-threatening crash last year, will lead Ineos-Grenadiers alongside 2019 Giro d'Italia winner Richard Carapaz.

Chris Froome

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The Vuelta a Espana looks set to turn into a Jumbo-Visma v Ineos-Grenadiers battle as Chris Froome was confirmed in the squad for his last race with the British outfit on Thursday.

Froome will leave the team at the end of the season to join Israel-Start Up Nation.

Jumbo-Visma will go with former Giro champion Tom Dumoulin and this year's Tour de France runner-up Primoz Roglic after the Slovenian lost the overall lead in the world's greatest race on the last competitive day.

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Other challengers include France's Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), who lost all hope of winning the Tour after sustaining a back injury during the opening stage, but also Spaniard Enric Mas (Movistar), who finished the Vuelta in second place in 2018. The Vuelta starts from Irun on Tuesday.

The race will only feature 18 stages after organisers scraped the start from the Netherlands amid the Covid-19 crisis.

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