Chris Froome is set to compete in the Tour de France under the new team name "Ineos Grenadiers," but the seven-time Grand Tour winner, who will compete in his last race with the team, the Vuelta a España, before moving to "Ineos Grenadiers" in 2021 He said that it was sentimental to.

"It's a strange feeling, but also a sentimental one," Froome said at the presentation of the official Ineos Grenadiers kit at the Allianz Riviera Stadium in Nice on Wednesday. [The Vuelta a España is the race where I first discovered myself as a Grand Tour contender nine years ago with this team. It's a race I've always enjoyed and in that sense it's great to be able to get into the Grand Tour."

Team Ineos announced last week that Froome, who won the Tour de France in 2013 and 2015-17, and Geraint Thomas, who won the race in 2018, were not selected for this year's Tour de France team.

The team will be led by defending Tour de France champion Egan Bernal, with Andrei Amador, Richard Carapaz, Jonathan Castroviejo, Michal Kwiatkowski, Luke Rowe, and Pavel Sivakov, Dylan van Baarle, and others will participate.

Froome and Thomas have been members of the team since its inception as Sky Pro Cycling in 2010. Thomas will compete in the Giro d'Italia from October 3-25, while Froome will lead the team in the Vuelta a España from October 20 to November 8. Froome won the Spanish Grand Tour in 2011 and 2017.

Froome joined Team Ineos in the UAE Tour earlier in the season and finished 71st overall. In La Route d'Occitanie, a prelude to the Tour de France selection, he finished 37th overall, followed by 41st overall in the Tour de Ain. In the following Tour de l'Ain, he was 41st overall.

Following the announcement that Froome had not been selected for the Ineos Tour de France team, he admitted that he did not have the confidence to do the work required in the French Grand Tour.

He said that shifting his goals from the Tour de France to the Vuelta a España was an adjustment, but given his serious injuries, including a broken femur suffered in a crash while previewing the time trial route for the 2019 Criterium du Dauphiné, being able to race He admitted that he feels fortunate.

Froome said the simple fact that he is racing again feels like a second chance in his long sporting career.

"Luckily, from the moment I woke up in the ICU, the surgeon told me. 'You suffered some pretty serious injuries, but all of your broken bones can heal.'

"For me, that was all I needed to hear at that moment. All the rehab started then, and to be back in the race now feels like I've been given a second chance."

Froome has not finalized his race program for September and October before starting the Vuelta a España on October 20; the event has been reduced to 18 stages after a scheduled start in the Netherlands was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was reduced to 18 stages. The Vuelta a España will be Froome's last race with Ineos Grenadiers before he moves his team to Israel Startup Nation in 2021.