The Murcian has confirmed that he will start on November 27 at the Giro de Rigo in Costa Rica, a cycling race hosted by Colombian runner Rigoberto Urán
Today it’s been a week since Alejandro Valverde said goodbye to the peloton as a professional rider. Last Saturday he took part in his last race in Lombardy, but the Murcian champion will not need a month to get back on his bike in a cycling event. That of Las Lumbreras has confirmed that he will start on November 27 in the first edition of the Giro de Rigo, which will take place in Costa Rica. It is a test that has quite a difficult route.
The organizers of this new event, which included Rigoberto Urán, a Colombian cyclist from the EF Education-EasyPost US team, had expected to surprise the participants with the presence of renowned international figures. “That is why we are excited to announce that we will have Alejandro Valverde, for the I edition of the Giro de Rigo in Costa Rica,” announced Urán this week, who knows well the man from Las Lumbreras, with whom he coincided in the team Balearic Islands Caisse d’Epargne.
The Giro de Rigo in Costa Rica is a cycling race with an exhibition character and a challenging track of 120 kilometers. In addition to Valverde, there are several invited professional cyclists who have confirmed their presence on Central American soil. In addition to Colombians Sergio Higuita, Daniel Felipe Martínez and Esteban Chaves, the international presence includes two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar (of the UAE Team Emirates).
Rigoberto Urán has invited Valverde this week with the aim of saying goodbye to the Murcian one last time at the height of his professional career. “Let’s welcome Bala in his retirement from professional cycling and let’s give him together the farewell that a cycling history deserves,” the organization of the Costa Rican race announced on social networks, which will have two challenges: the Jaguar Challenge of 120 kilometer with a very tough route and 2,336 meters of positive elevation gain, and the 60 kilometer Hummingbird Challenge. It also weighed in when Alejandro Valverde decides to take the plane as soon as the request of his former teammate and friend Andrey Amador, a female cyclist in Costa Rica, who has insisted that the Murcian get the farewell he deserves in a country that admires him.
The announcement of Alejandro Valverde’s participation in this new cycle tourism test has revolutionized the cycling world in the Central American country. On the test website you read: «Siiii! We present nothing more and nothing less than Alejandro Valverde. The 2018 world champion, the legend of Spanish and world cycling, will join us all on November 27 at the El Giro de Rigo Costa Rica edition in the year of his professional retirement!
Valverde’s stellar record is dazzling and in Costa Rica, referring to the Murcian, they speak with admiration of “a glory of Spanish sport that has achieved 133 victories.”
Source: La Verdad
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