{"id":185320,"date":"2021-08-13T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=185320"},"modified":"2021-08-13T13:59:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:59:02","slug":"who-will-win-the-2021-la-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/08\/13\/who-will-win-the-2021-la-vuelta-a-espana\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Win the 2021 La Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The defending champion Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d (Jumbo-Visma) knows how to use a disappointing Tour to fuel his Vuelta efforts. Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) and Aleksander Vlasov (Astana-Premier Tech) have been in waiting since the Giro. Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers) has been on the Grand Tour sidelines altogether this year. And then there are Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) and Enric Mas (Movistar). This is going to be a good one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, let\u2019s not keep you waiting. Our money is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/06\/29\/ride2unite-podcast-with-primoz-roglic-i-had-to-learn-how-to-suffer\/\">Rogli\u010d.<\/a> To everyone\u2019s disappointment, he crashed out of the Tour early. However, he must want to redeem himself even more now. He won the gold in the ITT at the Olympics so there\u2019s no question about his form. Given the fact that the route starts with an ITT, he could even wear red throughout the whole race. That would make his opponents more and more frustrated with each passing stage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LaVuelta21?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LaVuelta21<\/a>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Final TT preparations for tomorrow in full swing \ud83d\udeb4\ud83d\udca8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R9u4MwBbqs\">pic.twitter.com\/R9u4MwBbqs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Team Visma | Lease a Bike (@vismaleaseabike) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vismaleaseabike\/status\/1426153369685594112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Ineos Grenadiers have four possible team leaders on the squad. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/05\/26\/egan-bernal-when-im-at-the-front-i-like-to-attack\/\">Egan Bernal<\/a> will be the official one. However, we cannot wait to see what sort of tactics Dave Brailsford comes up with. Ideal training ground for the next year\u2019s Tour, don\u2019t you think? What would you have Carapaz, Yates, and Sivakov do? And do you think they\u2019ll have to step in for Bernal at some point?<\/p>\n<p>Aleksandr Vlasov will move to Bora-Hansgrohe after the season as was indicated for a long time. However, he will want to sign off his Astana stint with at least a podium finish. Or does he have even more in him? He is the man to watch despite the absence of form lately.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_185322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185322\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/08\/Aleksandr-Vlasov-profimedia-0624445863.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-185322\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/08\/Aleksandr-Vlasov-profimedia-0624445863-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Aleksandr Vlasov\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vlasov will move to Bora-Hansgrohe after the season. \u00a9 Profimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We shouldn\u2019t omit Hugh Carthy (EF Education-Nippo). He will certainly like the nine summit finishes and he was a contender for the overall win at this year\u2019s Giro right up to the last week. With Ur\u00e1n to back him up, he could prove troublesome for the obvious favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Enric Mas is still the Spaniard to watch despite the fact that his best result came in 2018 when he placed second at La Vuelta to Simon Yates. If the race opens up, he could definitely become a contender. And don\u2019t forget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/08\/09\/mikel-landa-wins-vuelta-a-burgos-and-other-cool-news-from-the-world-of-cycling\/\">Mikel Landa<\/a> (Bahrain-Victorious). The 31-year-old usually gets in trouble in the first week of the Grand Tour and then has to claw his way back in but what if that didn\u2019t happen now? Could he make the most of it in the third and most demanding week in the Vuelta history?<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t wait to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defending champion Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d (Jumbo-Visma) knows how to use a disappointing Tour to fuel his Vuelta efforts. 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