Astana and Movistar continue to zero in on the grand tours

The Astana and Movistar teamstwo of the comrades in the battle to avoid relegation from the World Tour for the next three seasons, They are the only teams in this category that have not released their winning locker this 2022 in the Giro, Tour and Vuelta.

In the absence of six stages to end the 77th edition of the Spanish race, neither the formation led by the Kazakh Aleksandre Vinokourov nor the Spaniard Eusebio Unzué was able to record a victory of the 57 episodes contested so far.

The crisis in telephone training can be more serious and reach two years in a row, as is the case with the Kazakhs, since the 2021 edition the Colombian Miguel Ángel López at the top of the Asturian Gamoniteiru premiered the winning locker four days from the end, despite the fact that two days later he was the hero of the great horror of his unexpected abandonment.

Things are getting worse for the Kazakh than since he won the sixth stage of the Vuelta in 2020 with Ion Izagirre during the winter season of Formigal, he has not won again.

The drought of the light blue formation coincided with the crisis of Spanish cycling in the grand tours that Marc Soler finally broke in Bilbao in 2022, in the fifth episode. If for Spanish cycling there are 121 days of poverty, the crisis of the Kazakhs adds ten dates to their poor balance, waiting to see if it will increase or if they can prevail in one of the six remaining days to play until Madrid.

At the exit of Utrecht, Cofidis also arrived without success which premiered the brilliant victory of Jesús Herrada who did not disappoint in the reduced sprint contested by the protagonists of the seventh stage to finish in Cistierna (León).

In the Spanish race, all the teams that can add wins to the big three are completeleading Jumbo Visma with ten accumulated victories so far, six of them in his successful Tour with Jonas Vingegaard.

Wasp formation is followed by Alpecin with 7, which is not yet part of the World Tour but because of his status as head of the ProTour he has an invitation for the entire calendar; BikeExchange (6), UAE Emirates (5), Quick Step Alpha Vynil (4) and Trek close at 3.

With victories in two out of three and no possibility of winning it, because they won’t win the Giro or the Tour, they are Bora (4), Intermarche Wanty (3), Ineos Grenadiers (2) and the newly incorporated DSM after the success of the Dutch Thymen Arensman, with 2.

The rest of the teams that have not yet debuted belong to the ProTour and participate in these tests by invitation, except for Arkea, which, as the second in this classification, could compete in all three but eventually gave up in participation in the last Giro d’Italia.