Cadel Evans’ Grand Tour career may have another chapter to it as he may be set to ride the Vuelta a Espana. BMC team manager Jim Ochowicz said that 37-year-old Evans will ride depending on how he feels after he completes the Giro later on today. However, the Vuelta team is to be led by Samuel Sanchez, but Evans would have chances to ride for himself too.

"Spain is very doable," Ochowicz told Fairfax Media.

Ochowicz says that Evans had discussed riding the Vuelta with him before casually, but now the talks are becoming much more serious.

"Sanchez is for sure doing it. So if Cadel is going to be there with him they are going to see some of the race. That will start when this race [the Giro] is over."

Ochowicz says that the Vuelta course suits the Australian and he believes he can do well in Spain.

"The proposition is really that Cadel is going to go there to help Samuel and then there is going to be opportunities for Cadel to do some things.

"We will see how that works out. It's too hard to exactly plan at the moment, but Sanchez will go there as the leader and Cadel will obviously be his great lieutenant. He is thinking about the worlds too."

As for the injured Tayor Phinney, Ochowicz says he will definitely not ride the Tour de France but Ochowicz has ruled out sending Evans to the Tour in the young American’s place.

"Had Cadel an issue early in the race and was out - say in the first week - then you would consider why he was out and if there was enough time to get ready for the Tour [if he was needed to fill a spot].

"But that didn't happen. He is going to do the whole Giro, it appears; and we are not changing the Swiss piece.