Chris Froome: It’s sentimental to race Vuelta a España as my last race with Ineos

Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas riding in the new Ineos Grenadiers kit
Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas riding in the new Ineos Grenadiers kit (Image credit: Ineos Grenadiers / George Solomon)

Chris Froome may not have been selected to compete at the upcoming Tour de France with his newly-named team Ineos Grenadiers but the seven-time Grand Tour winner says that there is something sentimental about competing at the Vuelta a España has his final race with the team before moving over to Isreal Start-Up Nation in 2021.

"It is a strange feeling but a sentimental feeling as well," Froome said during the official presentation of the Ineos Grenadiers kit at the Allianz Riviera Stadium in Nice Wednesday. 

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