Euskaltel Euskadi‘s team leader, Samuel Sanchez will not race the 2011 Vuelta a España which takes place in Spain next month. The Spaniard recently won the polka dot jersey as best mountain climber in the 2011 Tour de France. He also won the Luz Ardiden stage in the Tour de France. The Spanish team made an announcement on their team website, about the race. “The Tour has been extremely... 

Euskaltel-Euskadi will be sending their sprinters to Tour Down Under in Australia, and the Basque sprinters will fight against the usual favorites Andre Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto), Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) and Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervelo). The Euskaltel-Eusakadi Tour Down Under roster is as follows: Rubén Pérez, Iñaki Isasi, Gorka Izaguirre, Ivan Velasco, Miguel Minguez, Daniel Sesma... 

Euskaltel-Euskadi is ready for this year’s Vuelta a España, but eventhough rider Samuel Sanchez who finished second in last year’s Vuelta, and number four in Tour de France 2010, he is not going to ride Vuelta a España 2010. The reason: Sanchez sustained a fractured wrist in a heavy crash on stage 17 to the Col du Tourmale. This has forced Euskaltel-Euskadi to re-think their Vuelta...