Nairo Quintana on stage seventeen of the 2015 Tour de France
Not content with challenging to win the Tour de France and Olympic Games road race, Nairo Quintana is also planning an assault at the Vuelta a España in 2016.
In an interview with Colombian newspaper El Espectador, the Movistar rider says he thinks it is possible to win both the Tour and Vuelta in the same year, even though it's not been achieved since the race moved to its late-season spot.
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