Colombian cyclist Nairo Quintana said Thursday he will not race in the Vuelta a Espana, following his disqualification from the Tour de France for taking a banned pain medication.

The 77th Annual La Vuelta a España will begin this Friday, in Utrecht with a team time trial. This pancake-flat stage will kick off three-days in the Netherlands before circumventing the peloton make their way around Spain before the finale in Madrid.

Colombian Nairo Quintana has been retrospectively disqualified from this year's Tour de France after testing positive for tramadol, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced on Wednesday.

La Vuelta a España is often one of the most competitive and unpredictable races to wrap the grand tour stretch for 2022. Whether coming back from injury like Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious) or Julian Alaphillipe, or pros seeking their first grand tour victory like Michael Woods (Israel – Premier Tech), one thing racing fans may count on is an exciting three weeks of racing in the ever changing weather and steep slopes around Spain.

La Vuelta A España begins this Friday in the Netherlands before the peloton hop on a plane to continue their battle around Spain. The final Grand Tour of the season often favors climbers, but this year with the opening team time trial and a long 30.9 km individual time trial, that may difficult.

The 2022 La Vuelta A España starts on Friday, August 19th and will embark on the 3280.5 km trek around Spain before ending at the Grand Finale in Madrid on September 11.

The self-proclaimed “World’s Premier Gravel Event” is set to take the small town of Emporia, Kansas, by storm. On June 4th, the 2022 edition of the Garmin UNBOUND Gravel is expected to draw the event’s biggest attendance in its 17-year history, with 4,000 participants signed up to ride across the rugged Flint Hills of Kansas.

The Life Time Grand Prix is a competition comprised of six iconic off-road cycling races, which will be tied together for first time in 2022. The series combines three mountain bike races and three gravel races into an elite competition featuring 60 cyclists competing for a $250,000.

Mark Cavendish said his family were "extremely distressed" after a group of armed burglars assaulted the record holder for Tour de France stage wins and threatened his wife in a raid while his children were in the house.

British road cyclist Mark Cavendish on Tuesday extended his contract with current team Deceuninck-Quick Step by a further year.

Cycling team Astana unveiled their 2022 line up on Friday rebranded as Astana Qazaqstan and with 15 changes on a roster featuring Italians Gianni Moscon and Vincenzo Nibali and Colombian climber Miguel Angel Lopez.

Two years after Clara Honsinger and Gage Hecht were crowned national champions outside of Seattle, USA Cycling’s Cyclocross National Championships is back with a full week of collegiate, age group and elite championship races.

The top mountain bikers in the country are descending upon Winter Park, Colorado, for USA Cycling's Mountain Bike National Championships. FloBikes will provide live coverage of the youth and elite competitions from Friday, July 9 to Sunday, July 11.