According to Spanish media, the long-anticipated move has been turned into reality and the Amaury Sport Organization have bought the remaining 51% of shares in the company owning the Vuelta a Espana, Unipublic, from the Atresmedia.

ASO already possessed 49% of shares in Unipublic bought from Atresmedia in 2008 and buying the remaining shares in the company in a next step forward taken by the organization having such races as Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Flèche Wallonne and Paris-Tours, not to mention the Paris-Nice, Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de France in their portfolio.