'It’s a race I’d love to win but I don’t know if it’s going to be this year'
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Chris Froome kisses his 2015 Tour de France trophy(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde flank Chris Froome on the final Tour de France podium.
Dave Brailsford and Chris Froome embrace following the 2015 Tour de France.
Team Sky took good care of Chris Froome throughout the three-week race.
Team Sky lead overall leader Chris Froome on the road to Gap
The roll call of rivals is familiar but the circumstances are different enough for Chris Froome (Sky) to admit that he enters the Vuelta a España with less certainty than he did the Tour de France.
Four weeks on from landing his second Tour victory, Froome returns to the fray seeking to become only the third man, after Jacques Anquetil (1963) and Bernard Hinault (1978), to win the Tour and Vuelta in the same season.
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Barry Ryan was Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling’s Golden Generation, published by Gill Books.
