BMC Racing have announced that Tejay van Garderen will race this year’s Vuelta a España. The American pulled out of the Tour de France inside the final week due to illness but had been placed third overall at the time. Van Garderen has not ridden the Vuelta since making his Grand Tour debut with HTC in 2010.
The shift in schedule means that van Garderen will not compete in the USA Pro Challenge, a race he has won for the past two years.
"After looking at the route and considering what happened at the Tour, all things just seemed to point in the direction that the Vuelta was the path to take," van Garderen said in a team release.
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"The more I have thought about it, the more excited I am about doing it. It is a great new challenge.
"This is 100 percent my decision. It would be nice to go out and try to win the USA Pro Challenge again. But after what happened at the Tour, I need to prove myself on a bigger scale."
Jim Ochowicz reaffirmed that it was van Garderen’s decision to race the Vuelta and that the team backed the rider’s call. It was Ochowicz who drove van Garderen back to his base in Nice after the Tour abandonment.
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