Published: August 24, 2018
A high quality field has landed in Spain with a point to prove as Simon Yates chases a historic Grand Tour treble for Britain
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As a Vuelta a España hoves into view with perhaps a dozen potential winners in a field of exceptional quality, topped by the Tour de France stars Nairo Quintana, Thibaut Pinot and Vincenzo Nibali, it is hard to believe there was a time when the third Grand Tour of the cycling season looked horribly out on a limb. In 1995, at the instigation of the late Hein Verbruggen, the then president of the UCI, the race was moved from its traditional late April-mid May date to the back end of the season, to a chorus of concerned voices.
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