The leader of the mountain bike world ranking, the Spaniard David Valero (BH Coloma Team) will try from this Friday to take advantage of a circuit that suits his characteristicsthat of Leogang in Austria, to improve their World Cup situation.
Valero reached the third round of the World Cup a week later as world number one, accumulating more than eight months in that position, and with “thorn” a bad start to the competition, due to a mechanical issuehad left him more than he wanted in this competition.
His good race last week in Switzerland, where he was fifth in the long test and also had a good role in the short, left him in 12th place overall, but, for now, with a distance which is more than 200 points compared to Nino Schurter, who has shown very high form and is a big threat in the world ranking, where he is third, 202 points behind the Andalusian.
But this week’s test, in the Salzburg region, It is, a priori, for Valero, because it will be held in a stricter circuit than otherswhich allows good results for runners who are able to maintain a high speed from the start, like the Spaniards, who are less “explosive” than his other rivals.
Last year, where Valero was eleventh in the rankings at this time of the year, a good performance at this circuit, where he was sixth, allowed him to improve on sort that out and start an upward streak that led him to take the lead here. September.
Valero is the main Spanish reference for the weekend, where David Campos from Orbea will try to improve on 26th place which he now occupies in the World Cup and will also look for improvement, before the World Cup break, the other riders of the BH Coloma Team, Jofré Cullell and Pablo Rodríguez.
On the other hand, the Spanish mountain biking champion and member of BH, Rocío del Alba, thanked, in his social networks, the treatment received by his colleagues and the team at the Murcia hospital where he underwent surgery yesterday. the right clavicle, which was broken in a fall in the Swiss test.
“Now to recover to come back stronger“, the Madrid cyclist highlighted in his social networks.
Source: La Verdad
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