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UTRECHT: Cycling’s Vuelta a Espana embarks Friday with defending champion Primoz Roglic chasing an unprecedented fourth straight victory over a mountainous 3,280km route that begins, however, on the flatlands of the Netherlands.
Two years after La Vuelta was supposed to start in Utrecht, the race finally gets its Dutch ‘gran salida’ after Covid forced the organisers into some eleventh-hour changes in 2020. After the Giro’s start in Budapest and the Tour in Copenhagen, Utrecht completes the Grand Tour grand slam of foreign starts on a Friday for 2022 with each of cycling’s major three-week stage races having an additional rest day to compensate for the journey back to home soil.
Jumbo-Visma rider Tom Dumoulin has retired from cycling with immediate effect. Dumoulin took an indefinite break to consider his future in January 2021, returning five months later before earning a brilliant silver in the individual time trial at the Tokyo Olympics behind winner Primoz Roglic. Ad But after his Grand Tour return ended in disappointment at this year's Giro d'Italia, he decided to call time on his career in June.
Three-times winner Primoz Roglic will race the final Grand Tour of the season, the Vuelta a Espana, despite suffering serious injuries in last month's Tour de France, his team Jumbo-Visma confirmed.
Three-times winner Primoz Roglic will race the final Grand Tour of the season, the Vuelta a Espana, despite suffering serious injuries in last month's Tour de France, his team Jumbo-Visma said on Monday.
Remco Evenepoel will be flanked by Julian Alaphilippe as he targets victory at La Vuelta after being named in Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl’s team for the final Grand Tour of 2022. The Belgian will be hoping to put pressure on three-time defending champion Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), who is expected to line up in Spain despite abandoning the Tour de France with injury. Ad Evenepoel has shown impressive form this season, having won Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the Tour of Norway and Clasica San Sebastian.
Primoz Roglic has returned to training following his abandonment from the Tour de France, although his chances of racing in the Vuelta a Espana are up in the air. Roglic crashed on the cobbles in Stage 5 of the Tour, dislocating his shoulder before continuing to race on.
Jumbo-Visma’s masterplan to unravel Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) at the 2022 Tour de France was partly inspired by an unlikely source: Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag. Jonas Vingegaard ended Jumbo-Visma’s wait for the yellow jersey in Paris on Sunday, with his triumph teed up by a spectacular double assault on Pogacar on Stage 11. Ad/> Vingegaard and team-mate Primoz Roglic, then still in GC contention, took it in turns to accelerate clear on the kinder slopes of the Col du Galibier, forcing Pogacar to close each move and expend energy.