Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)current champion of Back to Spain and third overall, is now convinced this Friday on the stage with the finish line at Tourmalet “many things will happen.”
“Tomorrow many things will happen. We will see many runners trying to attack, many struggling, many defending… It will be a little of everything. I am very excited to run for the first time in the Pyrenees, it will be new for me. I am really looking forward to it. and I hope it ends well for us,” he said in Saragossa the defending Vuelta title and world time trial champion.
Evenepoel greeted Primoz Roglic for having gained four seconds in the intermediate sprint of the stage, which he did not want to enter to avoid dangers.
“My mind is already focused on tomorrow’s stage and I don’t want to go for the intermediate sprint. It’s dangerous, I think it’s an extra stress you add to the body. For me, it’s not necessary, but good , for Primoz Roglic, who gained four seconds,” he said.
For its part, the Spanish Juan Ayuso (UAE)one of the candidates to finish in the first general this 2023 Vuelta, believes that, “although we need to have strength”, this Friday, at the end of the Tourmalet, will be “a tactical stage”, especially since There are two team, yours and Jumbo-Visma, each with three tricks.
Ayuso is excited to reach “a mythical peak” like the Tourmalet, where he went “as a child to see the Tour”, and wants to see if that experience left him with “a good memory or a bad one memories
Looking forward to the fight for the general classification, he considers that “it will not be easy to remove (Sepp) Kuss from there”, from the leadership, and believes that “until the Valladolid time trial the race is one and from at Tourmalet it will be another.”
However, he is also worried about the consequences of Wednesday’s collapse. “The hardest blow was on my back and although my back hurts when I pedal, I use my legs. But let’s see if it doesn’t hurt that much,” he revealed.
Ayuso was also “very happy” about the stage victory of his teammate Juan Sebastián Molano, a sprinter “who has already shown that he can achieve a victory like today.”
Source: La Verdad
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