Vuelta a España

MADRID— Movistar says Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde will share leadership roles for the team at the Spanish Vuelta.Movistar has announced its squad for the three-week grand tour starting on Saturday. It says Quintana and Valverde will “lead t...

MADRID— Alberto Contador says he will compete in the Spanish Vuelta after recovering from a fall that forced him to withdraw from the Tour de France.The Spanish five-time grand tour winner fractured his right shin in a crash during the 10th stage of ...

MANCHESTER, England— Chris Froome will compete in the Spanish Vuelta after recovering from wrist and hand fractures that forced him to withdraw from the Tour de France.Team Sky announced its nine-man lineup for the Vuelta on Monday, naming Froome as ...

3000 kilometers of racing came down to a head-to-head battle on the steepest slopes of the Angliru and Chris Horner triumphed, winning the Vuelta a España.

Vincenzo Nibali and Chris Horner are almost perfectly matched in strength, talent, and will. Which will triumph in cycling’s last Grand Tour of the season, the Vuelta a España?

After ten of twenty-one stages of the 2013 Vuelta a España, 41-year-old American Chris Horner has almost a minute’s lead on his much younger competitors.

Alberto Contador won his second Vuelta while John Degenkolb won his fifth stage of this year’s race.

There was plenty of excitement in the last mountain stage of the 2012 Vuelta a España.

BMC’s Philippe Gilbert planned his assault and executed his plan perfectly to win Stage 19 of the 2012 Vuelta a España,

RadioShack’s Daniele Benatti won the bunch sprint ending Stage 18 of the 2012 Vuelta a España.

Saxo-Tinkoff’s Alberto Contador attacked on the mostly flat Stage 17 to take a possibly insurmountable lead in the Vuelta a España.

Dario Cataldo of Omega Pharma-Quickstep and Thomas De Gendt of Vacansoleil escaped 40 kilometers (25 miles) into the 184-kilometer (114-mile) Stage Sixteen of the 2012 Vuelta a España and managed to stay away until the finish.