The Valencian Community is once again the favorite destination for most of the World Team teams to conduct the 2023 preseasonbecause fourteen of the eighteen that make up the elite of international cycling have chosen a location in this territory for their set-up.
Waiting for the International Cycling Union (UCI) to announce in the coming days which teams will form the elite category of international cycling from 2023 to 2025, those previously called to do so have already announced their destinations to perform their respective concentrations starting this December and they all chose the Spanish Mediterranean, thanks to the climate, orography and state of the roads.
If the Valencian Community puts together three quarters of the men’s teams, the rest will go to Mallorca, Almería and Girona.
The Alicante town of Altea will host the most teams with a total of five. So squads like Astana, Bahrain, BikeExhange-Jayco, Groupama-FDJ and Arkea-Samsic will start rolling on their roads this December.
The Belgian team of Alpecin-Deceunick is concentrated from the 5th to the 14th of this month in Benicassim (Castellón)while the UAE Team Emirates of Tadej Pogacar will start the concentration from this Saturday until the 21st in La Nucía (Alicante) and the Jumbo-Visma of Primoz Roglic from the 12th to the 21st of this month will be in Denia (Alicante), where there is also this Cofidis planned to work on both dates.
Calpe, also in the province of Alicante, was the second destination most chosen by the teams, since Team DSM, Quickstep with Remco Evenepoel, who has been concentrated there since last Monday, and Trek-Segafredo will remain in this town; while El Albir is the chosen destination of the Intermarché-Circus.
The only Spanish World Team, Movistar, will hold its pre-season training camp in Almería; while the powerful British team of Ineos Grenadiers of Richard Carapaz and Egan Bernal work in Mallorca from the 6th to the 19th of this month, a destination also chosen by Bora Granshoge. Finally, EF Education-EasyPost focuses on the Catalan city of Girona.
Source: La Verdad
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