Spanish Professional Continental outfits Caja Rural-Seguros RGA and Burgos BH have announced their line-ups for the Vuelta a Espana. The two teams, who received wild card invitations to the Vuelta, are both sending young squads to their home Grand Tour, which starts on Saturday, August 25. Caja Rural is riding its seventh consecutive Vuelta, and is sending a `balanced team`, which can go for sprint finishes as well as fighting on the mountain stages. Sergio Pardilla, Alex Aranburu, Lluis Mas, Nick Schultz, Nelson Soto, Cristian Rodriguez, Jonathan Lastra and Antonio Molina will represent the team. It is the Grand Tour debut for Aranburu, Soto, Lastra, and Molina, and it will be Rodriguez`s first appearance at the Vuelta, having appeared twice in the Giro d´Italia. Pardilla, at 34 years old, is the only veteran on the team, with all the others are 25 or less.ADVERTISEMENT Burgos BH is also sending five debutantes to the race. Jordi Simon, Jorge Cubero, Jesus Ezquerra, Pablo Torres, and neo-pro Oscar Cabedo will ride their first Grand Tour, while Jose Mendes, Diego Rubio and Jetse Bol round out the team. The team, with an average age of 27.5 years, `will try to take the Burgos-BH brand as far as possible, in addition to responding to the confidence placed by the organization with the invitation.` Campenaerts in for Marczynski for Lotto Soudal Victor Campenaerts will replace Tomasz Marczynski for Lotto Soudal in the Vuelta a Espana. The Polish rider, who won two stages of last year`s Vuelta a Espana, has been ruled out of the race due to illness. The Belgian team will now appear at the race with an all-Belgian squad. It will be Campenaerts´ second appearance in the Vuelta, having finished 143rd in his Grand Tour debut in 2016 for LottoNL-Jumbo. He recently defended his European time trial title by less than a second over Spain`s Jonathan Castroviejo and is currently riding the BinckBank Tour. He had been keen to ride the Spanish Grand Tour but was missed o ...
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