Movistar Team's 43rd appearance

'Campionissimo' from Murcia, a GC winner in 2009, spearheads Movistar Team lineup at Blues' home Grand Tour, where 'Bala' has claimed major success over the years.

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The 77th edition of La Vuelta, which starts in Utrecht (Netherlands) on Friday 19th, will be a hugely significant moment for the Movistar Team. It will be the last competition on Spanish soil for Alejandro Valverde, its star and reference for nearly two decades and winner of the overall classification in 2009, as well as a dozen stages and provider of unmeasurable joy over the years.

For this final appearance in the Spanish grandtour (starts August 19th, ends in Madrid on September 11th), the organisation managed by Eusebio Unzué will bring an eight-man lineup that includes, other than ‘Bala’, the likes of Enric Mas -2nd overall in 2021-, Carlos Verona, José Joaquín Rojas, Nelson Oliveira, Mathias Norsgaard, Gregor Mühlberger and Lluís Mas.

Two time trials -the inaugural TTT, over 23 km, and an ITT of 30km between Elche and Alicante (Tuesday 30th August)- and plenty of mountains in the north (Pico Jano, Fancuaya, Les Praeres), Andalusia (Hoya de la Mora, La Pandera, Peñas Blancas) and the Meseta (Tentudía, Piornal, Guadarrama) will decide the outcome of the final three-week stagerace this year.