The full roll call of star names at the Vuelta a España remains shrouded in doubt a week from the start but one certainty is that Wout van Aert will be on the start ramp in Lisbon next Saturday.
The Vuelta has been on Van Aert’s schedule since the very start of the season, and his intentions never changed despite the heavy crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen that ended his Classics campaign prematurely and ruled him out of the Giro d’Italia.
