Turmalet: Can you imagine 668 days without seeing their team win?

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668 days is too manySo many, so many people forget to write a history that talks about success. To give an example, a football historian would never dream of going almost two long years without a victory for the team he follows. Well, on this bike and especially Spanish Grand Tour victories; ie in Tur, Vuelta or Giro. It was Sunday, October 25, 2020, when the Spanish round was run in the fall due to the coronavirus. Ion Izagirre wins a dog day at Formigal ski resort This is similar to what happened on Thursday in Pico Jano de Cantabria. And after a long, long time, almost as if in another galaxy, Marc Soler triumphed on Gran Via in Bilbao.

In the world almost Two long years without Spanish victories many things happened. The Covid pandemic has not yet been fully overcome, war has broken out due to the absurdity of the human condition, and some football teams have not yet finished raising their heads in sports.

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The truth is that with leaks and some favorites always fighting for the overall classification, there has never been such a long crunch of victory for a Spanish cycling team that won at home. Once upon a time, all of a sudden and to turn off the radio bulletins, the tradition is that you always talk about sports, the news that a Spanish cyclist and he managed to win a stage of the Giro in May. The race of the trio that is always overlooked in Spain. And of course at least one victorious escape The traditional siesta of July woke up the fans on the Tour.

Marc Soler at Gran Vía in Bilbao justified the cause of this drought as many of the best Spanish runners are employed as natives in the service of mainstream foreign figures. It is not without reason, because he was an assistant Tadej Pogacar in the round. We find a few examples in the Ineos team, and we even saw him working in the Italian round of Pello Bilbao, last year at the service of Italian cyclist Damiano Caruso, perhaps the best lap fighter the Spanish cyclist currently has. The Giro he finally got.

Status on Tour

Tour, oh my god Tour! The situation is even worse there, because to find a Spanish victory in the race files you have to go back to 2018, when no one imagined a pandemic would hit the world. There is even someone who writes about this triumph with dark hair that has now taken on a gray tint. In 2018, Pogacar, Evenepoel, Ayuso or Carlos Rodríguez were younger. They are not far from him with training wheels, but they were runners who advanced in youth races, even in categories lower for their age, Omar Fraile Mende raised his arms at the airport. Until More it was a promise!

Even though it’s still raining this Friday in Cantabria, where summer seems to have suddenly disappeared, we spent 662 days in a three-week race without seeing a Spanish runner succeed. In addition, it occurred at a time when there were few winning events in other major races on the calendar. Apart from Itzulia, a race where the great Basque representation always moves together, successes in the top races also cause a rivalry. worrying lack of wins.

For example, to find a Spanish victory at Volta, you have to go back to 2018, his usual business, Alejandro Valverde, who won in 2018 and also in 2017, although it is true that in 2020 the Catalan race was cancelled. closure As times have changed in the Vuelta, hopefully Soler’s victory in Bilbao will serve as a signal to announce that Spanish cycling has ushered in a new era, albeit a little grayer.

668 days is too manySo many, so many people forget to write a history that talks about success. To give an example, a football historian would never dream of going almost two long years without a victory for the team he follows. Well, on this bike and especially Spanish Grand Tour victories; ie in Tur, Vuelta or Giro. It was Sunday, October 25, 2020, when the Spanish round was run in the fall due to the coronavirus. Ion Izagirre wins a dog day at Formigal ski resort This is similar to what happened on Thursday in Pico Jano de Cantabria. And after a long, long time, almost as if in another galaxy, Marc Soler triumphed on Gran Via in Bilbao.

In the world almost Two long years without Spanish victories many things have happened. The Covid pandemic has not yet been fully overcome, war has broken out due to the absurdity of the human condition, and some football teams have not yet finished raising their heads in sports.

radio bulletins

The truth is that with leaks and some favorites always fighting for the overall classification, there has never been such a long crunch of victory for a Spanish cycling team that won at home. Once upon a time, all of a sudden and to turn off the radio bulletins, the tradition is that you always talk about sports, the news that a Spanish cyclist and he managed to win a stage of the Giro in May. The race of the trio that is always overlooked in Spain. And of course at least one victorious escape The traditional siesta of July woke up the fans on the Tour.

Marc Soler at Gran Vía in Bilbao justified the cause of this drought as many of the best Spanish runners are employed as natives in the service of mainstream foreign figures. It is not without reason, because he was an assistant Tadej Pogacar in the round. We find a few examples in the Ineos team, and we even saw him working in the Italian round of Pello Bilbao, last year at the service of Italian cyclist Damiano Caruso, perhaps the best lap fighter the Spanish cyclist currently has. The Giro he finally got.

Status on Tour

Tour, oh my god Tour! The situation is even worse there, because to find a Spanish victory in the race files you have to go back to 2018, when no one imagined a pandemic would hit the world. There is even someone who writes about this triumph with dark hair that has now taken on a gray tint. In 2018, Pogacar, Evenepoel, Ayuso or Carlos Rodríguez were younger. They weren’t far from him, not with the training wheels, but they were runners who were advancing in junior races and even in lower-for-age categories as Omar Fraile Mende raised his arms at the airport. Until More it was a promise!

Even though it’s still raining this Friday in Cantabria, where summer seems to have suddenly disappeared, we spent 662 days in a three-week race without seeing a Spanish runner succeed. In addition, it occurred at a time when there were few winning events in other major races on the calendar. Apart from Itzulia, a race where the great Basque representation always moves together, successes in the top races also cause a rivalry. worrying lack of wins.

For example, to find a Spanish victory at Volta, you have to go back to 2018, his usual business, Alejandro Valverde, who won in 2018 and also in 2017, although it is true that in 2020 the Catalan race was cancelled. closure As times have changed in the Vuelta, hopefully Soler’s victory in Bilbao will serve as a signal to announce that Spanish cycling has ushered in a new era, albeit a little grayer.

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