LONDON - Three-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome could attempt again to become the first rider since Carlos Sastre in 2008 to achieve a Tour and Vuelta a Espana double, his Team Sky said Tuesday. The season-long plan was Tour, on to the Olympics and on after that to the Vuelta, and that's still the outline at the minute," Brailsford told Sky Sports. The 2016 Vuelta begins in Ourense, northwest Spain, on August 20, 10 days after the Olympic time-trial takes place. Tour de France winner Chris Froome could race in the Vuelta a Espana after the OlympicsThe 31-year-old Kenyan-born Briton, who cruised to a third Tour de France crown in Paris on Sunday, broke a bone in his foot in last year's Vuelta attempting to repeat Sastre's feat. "As we go through the next phase with the Olympics, we will assess it as we go along.

Source: Bangkok Post July 26, 2016 12:22 UTC