
Two weeks after breaking his back in the 2025 Giro d'Italia, Basque allrounder Mikel Landa says he is hopeful of starting the final Grand Tour of the season, the Vuelta a España.
The Soudal-QuickStep veteran crashed out of the Giro on stage 1, fracturing a vertebrae and shattering his hopes of battling for a repeat to his podium finishes of 2022 and 2015.