After his great performance in Arinsal (Andorra) Lenny Martinez he rose to third position overall. This Thursday, aware that he can fight for the lead, the young rider of Groupama-FDJ –on July 11, he turned 20– he knew how to read the breakaway movement of the day, enter it, save energy to push in the last meters and wear the red jersey of the leader of the Tour in a day for the history of cycling and he will not forget as long as he lives. The cyclist born in Cannes just didn’t get over it Miguel Indurain as the youngest leader in the history of the Vuelta, but he did the same in the grand tours, surpassing the precocity of the Frenchman Henry Connet within 1984 Tour de France. 119 years have passed.
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Many will wonder who this runner will be to take the reins of the Vuelta peloton, whose roots also run through Spanish blood, Burgos, to be more precise. Formed in the subsidiary of his current team, in the continental category this year in the gala structure they bet on him and included him in their team World Tour, after a promising 2021, where he was third in the road trials and junior time trial of French Championshipalso third to Junior Alpine Classic and in European on the junior route and where he won the Giro Della Lunigiana.
In 2022, he maintained his progress and this year he reached the Vuelta in good condition, at a time when his success in demanding Mont Ventouxwhich shows his status as a climber, which runs in the family.
Is the son of Miguel Martinezwhich is a professional road teams Mapei and phonak but who rose above all in mountain biking, in the ranks of the Catalan team Maxxis-MSC -one of the best speakers in MSC distributorwhere his column came to run, among others the Olympic bronze medalist from La Rioja Carlos Colomain front of it is Lluis Marias and his son Ferranalso being benchmarks and competitive in the discipline of descent_ being European cross country champion (Portugal 1999), world champion in Sierra Nevada 2000 and Olympic champion in Sydney Games (Australia) of the same year.
Miguel did not become famous on the road as he did on the MTB, which his son Lenny is already doing, following in his grandfather’s footsteps. Marian. Born in Burgos in 1948 and French nationalized in 1963, and turned professional between 1971 and 1982. His main victories were achieved in the Tour, including victory in two stages and winner in the mountains in 1978, leading the bernard hinaultin addition to being bronze at the 1974 World Championship on the route, behind Raymond Poulidor and Eddy Merckxsilver and gold.
That’s why he was even more happy yesterday: “I had in mind at the beginning of the stage that it would be amazing to take the lead and it happened. I am very happy and I also think of my Spanish family.”
Source: La Verdad
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