Dane Jonas Vingegaard is the man to beat at cycling’s final Grand Tour of the season when the Vuelta a Espana rolls out of Turin on Saturday for a 21-day run packed with mountains.

The Spanish race starts with three days in the Piedmont region of Italy before sweeping into France. It also spends two days in Andorra as the home action gets underway, culminating in Madrid on September 14.

There are a massive ten summit finishes as the general trend away from bunch sprint stages is pushed to an extreme, with only two sprints seemingly guaranteed and a potential two more, depending how the peloton approach them.

Another Dane, the 2019 world champion and winner of the 2025 Giro d’Italia points competition, Mads Pedersen is the favourite for the sprint expected on day one.

On day two, the cl

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