The one from Granada David ValeroBH Coloma Tea rider and Spanish mountain biking champion, will not compete next morning in the final round of the Mountain Bike World Cup, having not yet recovered from the problems that led him to resign a week ago. the race held in the United States .
Sources from his team explained to EFE that Valero had already flown to Spain to treat dental problems that caused him a severe infection a week ago, from which he has not yet recovered, although he traveled with his Canadian team.
The team manager, Carlos Colomabelieved that this problem also had to do with the accumulated fatigue of Valero “having been nonstop for two years.”
The Granadan from Baza, 34 years old and a bronze medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the individual event and ninth at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, won a silver medal at the World Championships last year and with it He rose to first place in the international ranking, which he held for almost ten months.
This year, he sought to combine himself with the first at the World Championships in Scotland, but after preparing for that race for almost a month, he saw how a problem with a shoe ruined all his aspirations.
Since then, the Andalusian BH runner has had no luck in World Cup events, something that ended last week when the day before the race in the United States he was detected with a strong infection stemming from a problem with tooth that the season is finally over.
Currently, Valero is 20th in the world mountain bike ranking and in the World Cup he is 14th overall.
His team emphasized to EFE that they want the Andalusian to fully recover so as soon as possible start preparing for the next season, marked by the Paris Olympic Games, where he was supported by the bronze he achieved in Tokyo.
Source: La Verdad
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