Landa’s sacrifice in Italy: “I enjoyed the Giro and it also gave me a lot of pain”

Mikel Landa | She has a love hate relationship with him. Italy is spinning, a career in which he wrote some of his pages of glory, but also gave him some of his biggest disappointments. The man from Alava has not been disputing since this Friday what his seventh will be ‘Pink Corsa’ where he had the only podium on a great cycling tour (3rd in 2015) and where he added two painful retirements, especially last year.

The first was in 2016. During the 10 stages in between Campi Bisenzio and Sestola The man from Alava got off the bike sick when he was eight and when he was in a clear development. Worse was the serious crash last year, when he collapsed due to bad luck in the fifth stage, where he broke his clavicle and several ribs on the left side.

For this reason Mikel said in Javier Are’s YouTube programIt is “In Giro I enjoyed and suffered a lot. I had a fall, injury and recoil. Giro also gave me a lot of pain. I went with great enthusiasm and in recent years I have sunk, ”the man from Alava acknowledged.

But despite the misfortune that is sometimes followed by Murguia, he made sure he had completely forgotten the fall of 2021, although “I had a hard time recovering my diaphragm because I lost my breathing capacity. The falls don’t scare me right now, and I’m not afraid to fall again. The waterfall is unlucky, sometimes it’s time and that’s it ”.

And it is of the 16 professional achievements that Mikel landa values, eight have been achieved in Spain and the other eight in Italy, three of them in the Giro; race where he came this year as leader of Bahrain-Victorius, after varying her set-up a bit and trusting that her legs will accompany her when she needs it. Now the only thing left is luck is on your side.