Rafa Valls (Lampre-Merida) was looking forward to racing on familiar training roads at the Vuelta a España but will instead be watching from home. The Spaniard has been suffering from an illness since the last stages of the Tour de France though a diagnosis remains forthcoming.
"We’ve been talking with the team and decided it was best not to take the departure," Valls told Marca. "I could barely prepare for the race since the end of the Tour. When I got home, I decided to rest a few days and that’s when I got the hump. I was just dead and haven’t been able to train normally."
The 28-year-old is suffering from swollen glands and fatigue as he described. He had been focusing on the stage in the Cumbre del Sol when the Vuelta returns to Valencia. "That stage has been a special dream for me, and I wanted to fight for it. Now, I will have to watch on television."
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The team announced their nine-man squad but admitted with Valls out, they have concerns for a general classification rider, choosing now to focus on each stage as they come. Lampre's other GC hopeful, Przemyslaw Niemiec, crashed during a training ride last week but is expected to start. Other riders in the squad are Mattia Cattaneo, Valerio Conti, Kristijan Durasek, Tsgabu Grmay Gebremaryam, Ilia Koshevoy, Nelson Oliveira, Ruben Plaza Molina, and Maximiliano Richeze.
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