The 2022 Tour de France embarks from Denmark, pushes into Switzerland and Belgium, visits Dunkirk and Lourdes, and features five mountain slogs.

AG2R-Citroën rider Clement Champoussin ambushed the favorites and surged to victory on the penultimate stage of the Vuelta a España on Saturday as Primoz Roglič extended his lead in the overall standings.

Team UAE's Rafal Majka won stage 15 of the Vuelta a España on Sunday with a solo break to victory from an epic 85km, while Intermarche's Odd Christian Eiking held on to the overall leader's red jersey.

Bahrain Victorious rider Damiano Caruso won Sunday's mountainous ninth stage of the Vuelta a España asPrimoz Roglič strengthened his grip on the overall lead, coming second aheadof Enric Mas.

Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen won stage 8 of the Vuelta a España on Saturday for his second masssprint triumph on the race just a year after a near fatal crash on the Tour ofPoland.

Australian climb specialist Michael Storer of the DSM team won a mountainous stage 7 of the Vuelta aEspana on Friday, soloing to victory after escaping a 30-rider breakaway.

Alpecin-Fenix's Jasper Philipsen won a classic mass bunch sprint on the second stage of the Vuelta a Espana onSunday, edging out Deceuninck Quick-Step's Fabio Jakobsen and Bike Exchange'sMichael Matthews.

Cycling's final 21-day race of the season, the Vuelta a España, gets underway in Burgos Saturday with three Olympic champions taking on the mountainous route bookended by individual time-trials.

The 2021 Vuelta a España has a star-studded cast of contenders. We take a look at three of the likeliest eventual champions:

Ineos will field two newly crowned Olympic champions, Richard Carapaz and Tom Pidcock, in its team at the Vuelta a España which start on Saturday in Burgos.

The 2021 Vuelta a España covers three weeks starting on August 14 in Burgos, features nine summit finishes and a time trial to begin and end the race September 5. FloBikes looks at six critical stages this year's grand tour.

Heading towards the Vuelta a España, Primoz Roglic, Egan Bernal, and Richard Carapaz stand above everyone as favorites, but who could surprise the top stars in the 2021 edition?

The 2021 Vuelta a España runs this Aug. 14 to Sept. 5 and includes many stars who could compete for the final overall victory when the race wraps up in Santiago de Compostela.

American Neilson Powless of EF Education-Nippo won the Clásica San Sebastián on Saturday after edging athrilling three-way dash for the line on the Basque city's famous seafront.The 24-year-old from Florida was part of a breakaway over the narrow hillroads outside San Sebastián and finished the 231km course in 5hr 34mins 31sec,just ahead of Slovenia's Matej Mohoric and Mikkel Honore of Denmark.

The 2019 and 2020 editions of the Tour de France were won by two of the youngest riders in the history of the race. Tadej Pogacar and Egan Bernal are at the forefront of a new generation of young cyclists which are continually raising the bar and upsetting the established favorites. The 2021 Tour de France will be another battle between the dynamic youth and the experienced establishment.