Mikel Landa

The U.S.-registered WorldTour team confirmed the highly anticipated transfer of Italian star Vincenzo Nibali along with his younger brother in two-year deals.

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A string of high-profile departures leaves Movistar desperate to shore up its grand tour options leading into 2020

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Movistar played chess high in the Alps on Thursday and came up big with a stage victory for Quintana at the expense of Landa

The inconsistent Basque climber has nothing to lose and vows to try to blow up the race in a bid for the final podium in Paris.

Movistar manager confirmed rumors that both Carapaz and Quintana will be leaving the Spanish team next season.

Australian journalist Rupert Guinness speaks with five international colleagues about the Tour thus far, the biggest stories in each journalist's home country, and how the race will play out in the final week.

A combination of factors has transformed this year's Tour de France into one of the most unpredictable and engaging in decades.

The yellow jersey remains the same after stage 15, but Julian Alaphilippe surrendered time to key rivals in the scintillating finale. Now there are three men with a deficit of less than two minutes to the Frenchman.

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Movistar threw everything at the Tourmalet on Saturday only to see its GC hopes dissolve and the stage victory escape

Despite a promising first week, hopes of a tightly bound GC battle have succumbed to the suffocating dominance of Team Ineos.

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A touch of wheels sent Mikel Landa to the ground as the peloton broke into echelons. The Basque favorite ended up losing important time.

With Landa and Quintana showing signs of life, Movistar enters the second week of the Tour de France with growing confidence.

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Movistar is under pressure to perform in Thursday's first mountain stage in a Tour route that favors the team's fleet of climbers

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Believing 2019 to be its best shot at winning the Tour de France, Movistar will back Nairo Quintana and Mikel Landa

Despite a bumpy ride last year, Movistar is packing all of its firepower into the Tour with hope of dislodging Ineos and Chris Froome

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Landa heads to the Tour as part of a Movistar lineup including Nairo Quintana, but the Spaniard remains optimistic that they will operate as co-leaders.

The sharks are circling ahead of the last mountain stage of the Giro d'Italia, but race leader Richard Carapaz is unflustered

Forget the power meters, say backroom staff, Movistar's performance at the Giro is the result of great team spirit and thinking on their feet

Mikel Landa says he's committed to helping Richard Carapaz win this Giro. But he won't be passing up opportunity to gain time either

Landa, Carapaz and Quintana have all been linked with moves to rival teams

A strong attack gives Ag2r their first Giro stage victory since 2011; Landa and Carapaz make further gains overall

The consistently steep grades of the Mortirolo on stage 16 of the Giro have had team mechanics digging out the low ratios

Long range attacks and aggressive racing have given the Giro d'Italia a serious shake-up in the mountains

Mikel Landa makes gains on Roglic, as Polanc keeps pink and Yates suffers

The Giro's opening mountain stage saw 'virtual' leader without helpers

As the race heads towards the Alps, rain and cold are forecast to continue plaguing the 2019 Giro d'Italia

Mikel Landa blamed Simon Yates for crash before issuing apology on social media

Landa is hopeful he's back to full strength in time for the Giro following an injury-plagued season

Building his fitness toward the Giro d'Italia, GC favorite Mikel Landa seems to be recovering from injury with a win Thursday in Italy.

Movistar's leader for the Giro d'Italia finds himself in the hospital after breaking collarbone in first day of Mallorca Challenge.

Movistar will discuss Landa's racing schedule at an upcoming team meeting.

The Spanish duo struggled this season at the French grand tour, but they'll return next year for another run.

Reports via Spanish media outlets suggest Movistar rider Mikel Landa will not race the Vuelta a España as initially hoped.

Spaniard Mikel Landa was ruled out of the Vuelta a España on Sunday after suffering a broken vertebra in a crash.

Movistar did not land either of its three GC riders onto the Tour de France podium, so it will try the same tactic at the Vuelta a Espana.

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Mikel Landa's promised attack comes on the final mountain stage of the Tour but it comes up short in the end.

Movistar pair Alejandro Valverde and Mikel Landa appeal for allies to help loosen Geraint Thomas's grip on yellow jersey

Movistar has endured a tough few days in the Alps, but Mikel Landa senses fractures in Sky's "Fortress Froome."

Mikel Landa and his Movistar teammates are waiting for the right moment to attack Froome at the Tour.

It wasn’t a win, but it sure felt like one. There were plenty of smiles, high-fives, and hugs around the Movistar bus after riders survived a Sunday in hell.

Although Movistar was well off the pace of BMC and Team Sky, Alejandro Valverde and Mikel Landa are still in the hunt.

Movistar's three Tour de France GC leaders promise harmony. The unconventional approach could lead to strife ... or success.

GC trio will count on a balanced lineup for both flat and mountain stages

Movistar's Tour leaders are staying diplomatic ahead of the Tour de France

The squad will take an unconventional, three-pronged approach at the upcoming Tour de France.

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Words/Images: James Startt

Now that Mikel Landa has joined Movistar, will he, Alejandro Valverde, or Nairo Quintana be the chosen leader to take on the Tour?

Multiple GC favorites are racing on the cobblestones this year. How should we rate them?

"I’ve never raced over the cobbles. I have never trained on the cobbles," says Landa ahead of E3 Harelbeke.

After riding in support of top riders for years, Mikel Landa is now at Movistar — and will continue to be the second option for yellow.

Mikel Landa captured the fourth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico in Sassotetto, as Damiano Caruso took over the lead in the general classification.

The signing of Mikel Landa will not change the fact that Nairo Quintana is the team's top rider, Eusebio Unzué said.

The Spaniard said he no longer wants to work for others after two years at Astana and two at Sky.

The Spanish-based squad is throwing everything it has at winning the Tour de France next season.

With the 2018 WorldTour opener a little more than a month away, riders' grand tour plans for next season are starting to trickle out.

After trading barbs in the media last month, Mikel Landa and Nairo Quintana have buried the hatchet, at least for now.

The 2018 season hasn't even started and there are already questions about who's the man of the house at Movistar.

Nairo Quintana and Mikel Landa are speaking their mind in separate interviews and don't appear to be on the same page.

Mikel Landa is expected to depart the British team for another squad where he can be a grand tour leader.

Mikel Landa rides an exceptional Tour de France, but he regrets a missed opportunity to stand on the final podium — by one second.

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Mikel Linda is slated to leave Sky for another team at the end of this year as he seeks to be a team's top rider.

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Mikel Landa tried for a stage win on the Col d'Izoard, but Team Sky's myriad objectives kept him from flying truly free.

With the Tour de France concluding in a few days, news about potential rider transfers is heating up.

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Mikel Landa said he's at the Tour de France to help Chris Froome win yellow, but he wouldn't mind a podium finish for himself.