The Vuelta a España‘s long-awaited return to the Canary Islands in 2026 has been put off indefinitely, according to multiple media reports, with an initially proposed four-stage finale for next autumn likely set to be replaced by a showdown in the mountains of eastern Andalusia.
Last visited by the Vuelta in 1988, organisers and the islands’ regional government had apparently reached a deal for the country’s biggest race to end with stages on the archipelago, despite being more than 1,000 kilometres further south of mainland Spain.
This year’s Vuelta a España was seriously disrupted by major protests against the presence of the team in the race, with the final, largely ceremonial, stage into Madrid being cancelled as tens of thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators overturned barriers and invaded the race route.
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