Ineos Grenadiers and Jumbo Visma will once again face strong teams and multiple options in the Vuelta a España.

Chris Froome and Richard Kalapas will be in the lineup for the British team, while 2019 Vuelta winner Primoz Roglic will line up with Tom Dumoulin for the Dutch team.

The provisional start list for the 75th Vuelta a España, a unique 18-stage race that will run from October 20 to November 8, was released on Thursday.

Another team with two team leaders is Movistar with Enric Mas and Alejandro Valverde. Other contenders for the overall title are Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Esteban Chavez (Mitchelton-Scott), Guillaume Martin (Cofidis), Wout Poels (Bahrain McLaren), Daniel Martinez (EF Pro Cycling) Davide Formolo (UAE Team Emirates), and Dan Martin (Israel Startup Nation).

However, as was the case in the Tour de France preliminaries, all eyes will be on the battle between Ineos Grenadiers and Jumbo Visma, who will support their leader with a strong lineup.

Seven-time Grand Tour winner Froome, who won the Vuelta in 2011 and 2017, is at the top of Ineos' lineup, and after his absence from the Tour de France following his crash at the 2019 Criterium du Dauphiné, he is now Grand Tour-eligible. One of the race's main points of interest will be whether he is back to form.

Karapas was recruited at the last minute by the Ineos Tour team to support Egan Bernal.

Supporting them will be Andrei Amador, a domestique with Grand Tour experience, Colombian climber Ivan Sosa, and road captain Dylan van Baarle. Young Colombian Brandon Rivera will be making his Grand Tour debut, and Cameron Wolff will be returning to the Grand Tour after a seven-year absence. Michael Golas rounds out the eight-man delegation.

Meanwhile, Jumbo Visma's lineup resembles that of the Tour de France.

Logrich, winner of last year's Vuelta, will extend his season after a disappointing runner-up finish in the Tour. Dumoulin, who sacrificed himself for Roglic in the Tour, is more of a co-leader, but in the Vuelta he believes that "the road will decide."

Sepp Kuss, who stood out as a mountain domestique in the Tour, returns, and George Bennett and Robert Gesink make up half the team. Joining the team will be Jonas Vingegaard, Paul Martens, and Leonard Hofstede.

These two teams are likely to dominate the battle for the overall win, but the battle for the red jersey is also fierce.

Pinot is back after suffering a back injury during the Tour. The Frenchman recovered from his late-season disappointment to win two stages of the Vuelta and Il Lombardia in 2018. He is tied with David Gaudoux of Groupama-FDJ.

Movistar is again looking for a title in its home Grand Tour with Enric Mas, who finished second overall in 2018 and has improved as the Tour de France has progressed. Alejandro Valverde is said to be getting older and finally fading, but he has seven podium finishes in the Vuelta.

Martinez, winner of the Criterium du Dauphiné, leads the EF team that includes Michael Woods and Hugh Carthy, while Wout Poels leads Bahrain McLaren.

Other stage hunters include Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Tim Wellens (Lotto Soudal), Jesús Herrada (Cofidis), and Nance Peters (AG2R La Mondiale).

The sprint field is led by Sam Bennett, who won the Tour de France green jersey, his first time competing in two Grand Tours in the same season. He has a strong Detunink-Quickstep leadout of Shane Archibald, Michal Molkov and Zdenek Stybar, and it will be interesting to see how the young and impressive Andrea Bajori fares on the Belgian team.

Bennett will face competition from Pascal Ackermann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Yasper Philipsen (UAE Team Emirates), Matteo Moschetti (Trek-Segafredo), and Magnus Kort (EF Pro Cycling) on the relatively few flat stages ...

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