Vuelta a España 2025

After his summer plans were thrown into disarray by a failed anti-doping test, Simon Yates claims an emphatic win at the Vuelta a Espana.

Esteban Chaves is riding with the GC favorites at the Vuelta a España as he tries to win his first grand tour.

Steven Kruijswijk crashes out of the Vuelta a Espana in stage 5. The Dutchman came into the race as a GC hopeful following a strong result in the 2016 Giro.

The Vuelta a España is Ian Boswell's second grand tour of the season and the third of his career, and he's enjoying every minute of it.

The Vuelta is the Cannondale – Drapac captain's only grand tour of the 2016 season, and he's going all in.

Vuelta stage 3 has a nasty uphill finish on the Mirador de Ezaro, featuring max gradients of 30 percent. Here's your guide to the winners and losers.

Nine Americans are racing the Vuelta, Joey Rosskopf wins Tour du Limousin, and the women race a TTT and WorldTour road race in Sweden.

Farrar enjoys helper role at Dimension Data. The 32-year-old American is racing at the Vuelta to help guide his teammates over the roads of Spain.

Sky's team time trial performance puts Chris Froome in a strong starting position as he looks to add a Vuelta title to his palmares

After a disappointing Tour de France in July, Tejay van Garderen returns to racing at the Vuelta, targeting stage victories

The Vuelta is the best grand tour of the year. Why? It's always exciting, due to the creative course, the unpredictable riders, and weakened teams.

Chris Froome, Alberto Contador, and Alejandro Valverde can all ride into the record books at the Vuelta, which begins Saturday.

Who will win the 2016 Vuelta. Most of our editors are tipping Contador for the win, but there are a few surprises mixed into our predictions.

The 2016 Vuelta a España kicks off Saturday in Ourense with a strong field of GC contenders.

We consider the nine Americans who will start Vuelta Saturday, in Ourense, and what a successful race would look like for each rider.

Spanish climber Mikel Landa will miss his home tour, the Vuelta a España which starts Saturday in Ourense, Spain.

American Kiel Reijnen, making his grand tour debut at age 30, is perhaps one of the sport’s authorities on how to grind through tough seasons.

Why is Kristin Armstrong such a great time trial rider? Is Esteban Chaves a grand tour monster in the making? Why is the Vuelta the best grand tour of the year? We tackle all of the big questions on this week's VeloNews Show.

Quintana finished fourth in the 2015 Vuelta and Valverde won the 2009 edition of the Spanish race.

The British rider will attempt to become the first rider since 1978 to win both grand tours in the same season.

BMC Racing builds its Vuelta team around Samuel Sanchez and Tejay van Garderen but leaves Taylor Phinney home, despite expectations that he'd race.

The Sky rider could become the first cyclist to win the Tour-Vuelta double in modern Vuelta history.

American Tejay van Garderen will get another shot at a grand tour this season after a disappointing run at the Tour de France in July.

Though the Tour and the Rio Olympics are his main targets for 2016, Contador isn't ruling out a Vuelta start just yet

Climber-friendly Vuelta will get underway with two tough weeks in mountainous northern Spain

The course will be unveiled this weekend, and it's expected to be even more difficult than the challenging 2015 route.

Broadcaster will be the U.S. home of Vuelta coverage through 2023 after it posted its best year ever, in terms of viewership, in 2015.

Vuelta a España considers an explosive finale for the 2017 grand tour on the precipitous volcanoes of the Canary Islands.

The Spanish grand tour will set off August 20 in northwest Spain before tracing along a route that ends in Madrid on September 11.

After three weeks of hard racing, the Vuelta peloton enters Madrid for the finale.

The Cannondale-Garmin team has a rough Vuelta — crashes, illness — but its young riders soldier on and leave Spain with experience, fitness.

Rafal Majka stayed with the top contenders in Spain and was able to ride into third place on the race's final weekend.

Degenkolb caps off a great Vuelta for the Giant-Alpecin outfit and Aru confirms his first-career grand tour victory.

The Vuelta is often a launchpad for young riders' careers. Here are five riders who had breakthrough performances this year.

Fabio Aru won a Spanish grand tour that was filled with crashes, abandonments, and an ejection.

Aru rips the red jersey off of Dumoulin's shoulders on the final day of climbing as Plaza rides a long, lonely road to victory.

Fabio Aru proves to be a fighter in Vuelta's final mountain stage, executing a brilliant tactical play to out-climb and beat Tom Dumoulin.

It was one day too long for Tom Dumoulin who tumbled from the overall lead all the way down to sixth-place after imploding in the Sierra.

Ruben Plaza wins final day in the mountains with bold, long-range attack, and the GC podium gets reshuffled.

Despite a crash and illness, American Alex Howes is confident that the Vuelta will set him up well for a run at Richmond worlds.

Alexis Gougeard notches his first-ever grand tour stage win as Tom Dumoulin tightens his grasp on red jersey.

Team Astana is again the subject of controversy as Fabio Aru takes a late-race push from a teammate while Tom Dumoulin was attacking.

Gougeard wins the day, and red jersey Tom Dumoulin asserts himself on final cobbled climb, attacking to gain more time on GC.

Though American Joey Rosskopf is struggling through the final days of the Vuelta, he hopes the experience will pay off in future seasons.

Tom Dumoulin brings a small lead into the final three days of racing in the Spanish grand tour.

The Astana rider remains 3 seconds out of first place at the Spanish grand tour entering Friday's stage 19.

Joaquim Rodríguez has a hard fight to keep his podium spot in the Vuelta a España, as another grand tour win slips through his grasp.

In a Vuelta that saw Sky lose GC leader Froome to a crash, Nicolas Roche shined in stage 18 with a much-needed stage win.

Nicholas Roche celebrates his first win of the season while the GC riders launch attacks on final climb, failing to dislodge Dumoulin.

Nicholas Roche wins a two-up sprint to claim his first win of 2015, while Tom Dumoulin defends his overall lead by a thin margin.

Lawson Craddock says Tom Dumoulin "was an unknown" in terms of GC riders entering the Spanish grand tour.

Giuseppe Martinelli is hoping race leader Tom Dumoulin falters so Fabio Aru can claim the red jersey.

Tom Dumoulin finds himself with a chance to win his first-ever grand tour after a brilliant time trial and steady riding in mountains.

Tom Dumoulin rides an exceptional time trial to take over the Vuelta lead, but will it be enough for him to hold red to Madrid?

Danger lurks in the Vuelta's closing days as Dumoulin clings to a three-second lead and climbers Aru and Rodriguez vow to attack.

Tom Dumoulin dominates Vuelta's big time trial, winning the day and claiming red, but not by much.

BrakeThrough Media captures the action during the second week of the Vuelta a Espana, which included several steep climbs.

After failing to distance Dumoulin in the mountains, Joaquim Rodriguez needs the time trial of his life to keep the Vuelta lead.

UCI officials test for hidden bike motors at the Vuelta, checking the bikes of Quintana, Aru, Schleck, and others.

Tom Dumoulin's standout performance in the Vuelta is changing the course of his career as he now may aim for more GC success.

Fränk Schleck was the first rider across the line at the Vuelta's final summit finish

Schleck wins the Vuelta's 16th stage, while Rodríguez takes the overall race lead ahead of Aru by the slimmest of margins

Rodriguez slipped into the Vuelta's leader's jersey in stage 16, but Dumoulin's GC hopes are still alive as Wednesday's time trial looms

The 24-year-old American is "getting experience" in the first grand tour of his career.

Joaquim Rodriguez made his move on Sunday, and it brought him a stage win and nearly netted the red leader's jersey

"This season has been full of comebacks," says the Orica rider, who has broken a collarbone, elbow, and wrist this year

Katusha's Mr. Consistent says he's in an ideal position to win the Vuelta, but he's not betting the ranch on it yet

Purito Rodriguez takes a big step forward as both Movistar and Astana come up empty on stage 15

Alessandro De Marchi wins the Vuelta's 14th stage as Fabio Aru holds on to the leader's red jersey

Aru still leading the Vuelta after a challenging stage 14

Samuel Sánchez joins Tejay van Garderen on the list of Vuelta abandons, but Alessandro De Marchi delivers for BMC with a stage victory

Four upcoming stages at the Vuelta a Espana will most likely decide who wins the overall title. Andrew Hood previews the action.

The two-time Tour de France runner-up is now more than 3 minutes out of first in the Spanish grand tour.

Photos from stage 13 at the Vuelta a Espana, which saw Portugal's Nelson Oliveira snag the first grand tour win of his career.

With Contador, Valverde, and Rodríguez near the end of their careers, Mikel Landa could be the next Spanish rider to carry the torch.

The breakaway nearly makes it, but the sprinters have their day and young Danny van Poppel shines in the bunch finish.

Young Danny van Poppel wins his first-ever grand tour stage as Aru remains comfortably in red leader's jersey.

Larry Warbasse is looking for breakaways at the Vuelta to show off his form, with the hope of securing a contract for 2016.

The two-time Tour de France champion went down early in Wednesday's stage 11, and scans later showed a broken bone.

With Sky leader Froome struggling, Boswell is free to fly in the Vuelta's queen stage and earns a podium finish after riding in the break.