The Spanish Juan Ayuso (UAE Emirates) said this Monday at Santanderon the second and last day of rest of Come back 2023which, since it is already a “podium” in 2022, is not “afraid” of losing the fourth place it now occupies in the general classification “by taking risks” to improve positions.
“I made the podium last year and this year I see myself closer to first, more stable in the race and that I am making a step forward. So if I have to risk my fourth place by trying, I’m going to do it, even if I end up fifth later. or sixth. That wouldn’t be the end of the world, I’d rather it happen than not try and then think about what would be happen,” said Ayuso on a telematic. press conference on the day off.
“I’m not afraid in case I fail,” he summed up, looking at the final week of the Vuelta where he “better do better in front of what’s left.” More “seriously,” he said he believed he would “get better,” even assuming that after being told his “legs might fail.” “But I have to convince myself that I will get better,” he insisted.
In that sense, he announced that “he will try it Asturias“, in episodes ending with Angliru and in two ascended to Cross of Linaresand if you also need to do it in Madridwill give “everything” on the day of Guadarrama. On that day, the 16th, he will be 21 years old.
The corridor of Javaalthough born in Barcelona, not only looks better in the race than last year, but also believes he receives more “respect” from the peloton. In this regard, he assured that he felt a strong mark of Primoz Roglic, winner in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and second overall with a one-minute advantage over leader UAE. “I stop to pee and I have him behind me,” he said mockingly.
Roglic about him Jumbo, Ayuso “hard to believe” that there will be ego problems among his leaders, because he considers that “the logical thing” is that both Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard “would like a teammate to help them to achieve this win will win. .” years the Giro d’Italia, in Slovenian, and the Tour de France, in Danish. “I am very skeptical to see a situation like this and, moreover, I see Kuss as the strongest.”
As for his team, also with three riders in the Top 10, although in additional positions, with Marc Soler sixth and Joao Almeida tenth and almost eliminated, he considers “none of the three to be sacrificed” for another teammate. .
If anything, “yes in an attack from a distance”, but “not in a situation where you have to do everything” in the peloton, because “this suits Jumbo best.”
Ayuso insisted on his idea of trying to ensure that one of the three Jumbo leaders “has to suffer”, that there is a situation where the riders leading the general classification are alone and one of them has to sacrifice themselves. As was the case two stages ago going up to Puerto de Larrau.
Source: La Verdad
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