Remco Evenepoel bows its head and rolls through Valladolid’s wide bike-lined streets. One day you should feel happy because the joy has returned to the Vuelta with enough heat to ride a bike in sunny mode and without sweating too much. It almost doesn’t matter Filippo Ganna He left the table with an amazing time trial because the Italian driver is not his rival and he signed up for the Vuelta for what he did this Tuesday and excited anyone with a sensational time trial racer like him. But also for a day, once you reach the finish line, it’s impossible to be happy despite your acceptable stage because of course instead of starting to win the race like you did in the only ‘time trial’ scheduled last year, the same thing started losing it.
Knowing that they will give him a cane in Soriana starting this Wednesday, two teams whip him, so he can neither roll nor sleep peacefully. Black Lagoon. And it’s better not to even think about it tourmaletFriday’s date, or on a stage between France and Navarra, next Saturday’s cycling match is as wild as a panther and, if possible, more dangerous than climbing the Pyrenees legend.
Valladolid time trial This was far from a scenario that Evenepoel, who premiered as the world champion of the rainbow ‘shirt’, would have wanted to achieve. Even the phrase “I’m satisfied”, pronounced minutes after finishing the stage, sounded like a white lie because he only got off the stage for 20 seconds. Cousin Roglichbecause he resisted Sepp Kuss, due to the fact that the cheating Jonas Vingegaard is very close to him in general; Three key pieces to torment him in the high mountains and the question of what to do and how to react to the full-fledged attack of the Jumbo team.
Ayuso, Soler and Almeida
As if that wasn’t enough, the UAE also took up arms against Evenepoel because Marc Soler He had a great time trial because although Juan Ayuso wasn’t happy with his performance, he was a competitor at the time, and most importantly he brought in the Arab team Portugal. joao almeida In the fight for the vuelta. There are three more opponents, including allies, to embarrass him on any of the three mountain stages planned this week.
Loss eveningpoellike the candidate who won an election but was far from the majority and far from coming to power, and the Vuelta triumphed; a race that seems to be haunted by bad fate, especially bad weather, and needs the sun to illuminate the race. A Valladolid that takes to the streets with a very fast order, Ghanabut also eveningpoelwhere alleged role and where enric mas He outstripped himself by far too long (1.41 minutes behind the Belgian cyclist, tops the rankings among the top favourites), while Mikel Landa was double-crossed by the time trial world champion.
All worked with 60T chainrings; this was unimaginable 30 years ago; In fact, they weren’t even made for the road. Miguel IndurainFacing the Valladolid time race before the monsters were unleashed, one stage of these traits never exceeded 55 teeth; this is another sign of how the bike has changed in recent years. eveningpoel (23 years old) or Ayusowith only 20.
The race against time presented the Vuelta with an exciting situation; everyone was looking at the top of the Tourmalet, and everyone including eveningpoelobserving vengefulIt could become the Jumbo’s weapon of mass destruction, although it is far from completing the perfect time trial in Valladolid. gave up 1.12 minutes eveningpoel. What should you do eveningpoel What if he attacks from afar in the Pyrenees? and emirates Ayuso?
Leader’s View
“Soudal[Evenepoel’s team]is weak in the high mountains, so we will try to isolate Remco,” said Sepp Kuss, race leader and Jumbo third man, who resisted beyond expectation as an excellent climber. close in the fight against time. “I am very confident vengeful. He has a monstrous level in the high mountains, which will come in this Tour. This is their terrain, but it must be admitted that preparing for this race after winning the Tour is no easy task,” the Andorra-based American cyclist added in perfect Spanish.
The best smile is back in the Vuelta, even so eveningpoel not being there to laugh and warm blood roleknowing you have Birdto a Vingegaard never seen before, and above all to a Vingegaard who, despite being the bullet in his team’s room, would not betray him.