Longtime Grand Tour star Mikel Landa said the Vuelta a España is “unfinished business” for the Basque rider, who supported Remco Evenpoel in the Tour de France.

Landa will race with a different team kit starting in July, as the Sourdal-Quick Step team announced Thursday that it will rebrand to T-Rex-Quick Step for the Vuelta.

T-Rex is a type of adhesive produced by the team's main sponsor, Sourdal, which is keen to promote the team in Portugal and Spain, and although it is only one race, the team name has been officially renamed and the jerseys have been updated accordingly, with the proud T-Rex dinosaur roaring The image has become that of a proud T. Rex dinosaur roaring.

Dressed in the dinosaur jersey, Landa, like the legendary prehistoric creature, was hungry at mealtime when it came to his first podium finish at the Vuelta a España after unexpectedly finishing fifth overall at the 2024 Tour de France.

“I did my homework because I helped Lemko as much as I could in the Tour de France,” Landa said, grinning, “I'm going to be T. Rex here in the Vuelta.” [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...]

“First of all, the Tour has been pretty hard for me.

“I have put in a lot of effort for this Grand Tour, and in May we had our second child. After all of that hard work, I came to the Tour and was seething at such a terrible result."

‘I was very happy with the Tour,’

‘I was very happy with the Tour,’

While there are similarities to 2023, when he abandoned the Giro d'Italia in COVID and returned to the Vuelta, he said, “It was different then because there was more time between the two races.”

“When the team asked me to go to the Vuelta, my first thought was, ‘I don't know if I'll be ready.’ But they convinced me that I could do it, and slowly a good feeling came back.”

“So this time I had a few days with my family to rest a bit and forget about cycling. Last week I started to feel better for the Vuelta.”

In addition, as a less significant benefit of competing in his second Grand Tour in a year, Verbaeke cited the chance to add a slightly different design to his home country's jersey collection, the Mayo. I've never had a mayo with a dinosaur on it,” he said. [...] [...] [...]