Burgos BH faces the most important test of the season full of motivation and enthusiasm. A goal that the purple team has been preparing for months and in which it hopes to restore the trust placed for the sixth consecutive year by the organizer of the event. The courage in the race and the good performance of the team he leads Julio Andres Izquierdo they allowed him to receive one of the important invitations to the three-week test that begins in Barcelona and ends, as usual, in Madrid. A total of 21 stages where the team will carry the Burgos name across Spain, taking on the strongest riders in the international peloton.
The choice of eight men to start was not an easy decision for sports management in a season where the entire purple squad performed at a high level, gaining up to six victories in the last eight months. Five of the riders selected in the 2022 edition are repeating and there will be only one rookie among the participants. This will be the Uruguayan case Eric Fagundez, who in his first season as a professional performed at a high level. The reigning national time trial champion excelled in the stage rides, finishing second in the Tour of Qinghai Lake.
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Next to him another climber will appear as Daniel Navarro who will be the oldest rider in the team both in age and in participations. The Asturian will compete in his ninth Spanish round, bringing his experience to bear on a three-week race where he was already 10th in the 2014 edition, achieving stage victory in Obregón. In the high mountains, he also hopes to leave his mark Jose Manuel Diaz Gallego, which could be one of the team’s assets for the general classification. The man from Jaén has completed several weeks of work in the Sierra Nevada to reach the best point of form for a race in which he won last year.
Another runner who knows the race very well is the Dutchman Jetse Bol, who will start La Vuelta for the seventh time. A very competitive cyclist, a regular in the fight for mountain prizes, who already knows what it feels like to be second on the stage in this race. Another candidate who leaves his mark on leaks is the Cantabrian jesus ezquerrawho just a few weeks ago was playing his second World Championship with the Spanish team.
The youngest in the group will be pelayo sanchez, who returned two years later at the Vuelta a España after completing his best season as a professional. After his victory in the Vuelta a Asturias, the final week’s stages will be marked in red. the Biscayan ander okamika he will not miss an appointment where he has been a regular since he arrived in the team in 2021. Another cyclist who brings a lot of presence in the breakaways and was part of the victory in the GP Beiras team time trial. Finally, cyril barthe He will bring to the team his top speed and his ability to work on select days. The Frenchman completed an excellent first campaign in Burgos BH, adding victory in the Volta al Alentejo.
Julio Andrés Izquierdo (general manager): “Once again we thank the organization for rejoining the Vuelta a España for another year. This is the most important race of the season for our team. A prize for all team members and an international showcase for our sponsors. Throughout the year we achieved good results in various tests. We are going to La Vuelta with a good block of riders who we expect to perform at the best level during the 21 days of the race. Burgos BH has always been characterized by the ambition with which our riders always enter this event. We have to continue in that line. The riders are psyched up and we will try to give fame, knowing that we will face good squads, with the best riders in the world”.
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David Cantera (technical director): “We face La Vuelta because we know the responsibility that accepting this important invitation implies. We really want to leave our stamp on racing again. We worked hard to face the three weeks of competition in the best possible way. We went with a great group of cyclists, who can perform on all terrains. We hope to reach the task, as we have done in the last five editions”.
Source: La Verdad
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