Pedro Delgado predicts a very interesting period for Spanish cycling

the exciseman Pedro Delgado predicted a season for Spanish professional cycling today in Segovia “that will be very good, interesting and promising because we have two very strong riders, young people, Carlos Rodríguez and Juan Ayusowith 20 and 21 years, doing great things, although we won’t see them at the highest level until 2024″.

Delgado, who participated in the traditional turkey race for bicycles without chains held every Christmas day and has reached the 87th edition, he pointed out, about international cycling, knowing that Roglic will ride in the Giro d’Italia with Evenepoel which, in his opinion, “is funny because they don’t want to face Pogacar. o Vinegaard, that they will be the great favorites”.

In Spanish properties, the television sports commentator also referred to Mikel Landa or Enric Masbut he insisted that “the projection of Ayuso and Rodríguez must be strictly followed, we must know their potential and if they can win a good tour in two or three years”.

For the winner of a tour of France and two tours of Spain, related to the last great Spanish test, where from the beginning had opted for the Belgian from Evenepoel, he explained that, “even though he is still very young, you can see all his physical capacity”.

“I thought I would go to the Tour, I think it will be very interesting for the race and for that confrontation with another colossus Tadej Pogacar, but hey, the Tour of Spain is very good,” he evaluated.

However, the athlete regretted that the Slovenian Primo Roglic fell, in the end, because he believed that “it will give the Belgian a difficult time”.

For Delgado, “professional competition cycling is already quite stable and we will see if there are young people who are there, like the Colombian Egan BernalLet’s see if he has the capacity to measure himself against Tadej Pogácar or Jonas Vingegaard, I think he will be another interesting part for next year”.

In the turkey race, in which 57 cyclists participated and was won by Hugo Sanz, who arrived after the launch from the steep street of Emperador Teodosio, parallel to the Aqueduct, qualified below Marcos García and Miguel Ángel Martín, was appreciated that after the health crisis it returns to normal “because this tradition” or “its presence” can disappear, it concluded.

And jokingly, Delgado congratulated himself because he was able to beat his brothers-in-law in this race, although he admitted that he always finished in the same point, without ever winning, although he confessed that he prefers “feeling safe going down the cobblestones” to Go as far as the climb brings you.