The Ecuadorian Richard Caparaz (Ineos Grenadiers) is convinced that he will achieve in Back to Spain what was his second victory in a big and he came “too eager to try to achieve the goal” after training for the last month at home: “I have enough mentality to win,” he said.
“I am very happy to be here again. I prepared the Vuelta in the best way and I want to fight for the podium that I already got in one year. It is a big goal and it will be fought for from the beginning,” he explained.
Carapaz, who has already announced that he will not continue with Ineos in 2023, recalled that he kept the goal set at the beginning of the season of doing the Giro and Vuelta and “doing it in the best way, after a fantastic Giro “.
The fact that eight of the cyclists who entered the top-10 in the Giro are at the start of Utrecht (Netherlands), while there will only be one in the top ten in the Tour, considering that “people rested after the Giro and He saw himself with the capacity to do the Vuelta”, while he did not comment on the decision of those who competed in the Tour, although he acknowledged that it was “very moving”.
In your opinion, it appears a “quite interesting” Tour because of the level of rivals is something that will cause a “battle” for the last red jersey. “It’s good to have competitiveness and it makes it more worthwhile,” he said.
On tour, he stressed that it was “demanding with a relatively high finish” for what they came with a good team and convinced to fight for the general classification. He also admitted that he knows “some endings but not others”, at the same time that he highlighted Sierra Nevada as one of the most complicated ones that “I know well”.
In the initial team time trial, he revealed that they knew it well because in the previous days they had been concentrated in the area and trained on a route that he described as “technically where we have a good team and we can fine”.
Source: La Verdad
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