The Spanish J.Juan Ayuso (UAE), fourth overall, predicted this Monday on the rest day of Come back 2022 that “the days that remain”, a total of six stages, “will be very difficult” and in them “everything will move” in the race led by the Belgian. Remco Evenepoel (Quick Step).
“We have been at full throttle since the first day, from the Netherlands. There has only been one quiet day and that will be very noticeable. Maybe there are still many changes and I hope mine is for the better,” he said, and the telematic press conference he offered on the third, and final, rest day of the Vuelta.
In that appearance, with his colleague, the Portuguese joao almeidaAyuso did not hide that what he wanted was “the podium” despite the fact that he had it in 2 minutes and 48 seconds that Enric Mas (Movistar) was taking from him.
“I don’t want to lose fourth place, but where I want to finish is on the podium”, he commented, happy to be “living a dream”, that of running the Vuelta, which is clear that “it will make him a better who will run with all the senses, physically and mentally, for the coming year. “I got results and I’m happy, but the important thing is that I ran a race of this demand”, he commented.
Ayuso agrees Enrique More that for the last week of the race “alliances” between teams and runners will be important”, or more than “taking advantage of the race when it favors both”, as on Sunday when he was seen “taking advantage” of the Works the “Ineos” when the British team was shooting for their runner Carlos Rodríguez.
And it also coincided with the Balearic Islands when he predicted a “good year for Spanish cycling”. Of course, he asked for “a little patience, one or two years”, from the “demanding Spanish fans”. “Although it is normal that they are demanding because there were a few years when we ran well, we won great,” he recalled.
Almeida, for his part, promoted the UAE’s intentions to move the race and improve his position, seventh, and Ayuso’s fourth. “If the opportunity, we are going to be aggressive. If we see the opportunity to get time, we are going to try. We will work together, as always in the UAE. We continue well and we have to try. Then, if others have better legs, good, but we will try”, insists the Portuguese rider.
Source: La Verdad
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