Chris Froome has announced his participation in the Vuelta a Espana and hopes to become the first rider to win the Spanish race and the Tour de France in the same year since 1995. Why I don’t think Chris Froome will win a fifth Tour de France | William Fotheringham Read moreFroome, who won the Tour title on Sunday in Paris, has previously finished second in Vuelta on three occasions. “I’ve got the opportunity and I’m certainly going to go for it,” Froome said in a statement on Team Sky’s website. “The Vuelta is a race I love – it’s vicious but it’s three weeks that I enjoy,” said Froome. The 2017 Vuelta begins on 19 August in Nimes, France and finishes on 10 September in Madrid.

Source: The Guardian July 27, 2017 09:33 UTC