Eduardo Chozas: “‘Landismo’ is still alive and many more Giro left”

Former professional cyclist Edward Chozas –Which caused controversy over ten editions of Italy is spinning between 1981 and 1993, with two top ten and three stages of success – examining what has happened so far in the Giro and what could happen in the last week of ‘Pink Corsa’:

“We are facing the last week of Giro with certain equality. We see now, especially after two weeks, that ‘Juanpe ‘Lopez He made a career -leading victory in ten days, which was something very important for him and for Spanish cycling. It’s true that we still have things to resolve for the cycling of the Spaniards and hopefully it will be resolved well: win a stage and see how far the Spaniards are capable of the overall classification.

In this sense, we faced it last week with a definite equality between the four riders, with Richard Carapaz ahead of the general, but with a Jay Hindley wrapped in a Bora team Incredible, that’s the day of Turinwhich was not a stage most thought of, was the best stage seen in many years, especially due to the aggressive attitude of the Bora team, which more than 70 kilometers from the finish line began to make a mess. battle that removed many people or put everything in their place. joao almeida he was there, as if he were making rubber but nothing could get away from him, he was 30 seconds away, and the time test was in his favor on the last day in Verona and Mikel Landa |, the expectation of Spanish cycling, was 59 seconds. Ang ‘Landismo’ is still alive and one of the things that brings hope to Spanish fans. Pello Bilbao is 6th, ‘Juanpe’ Lopez 9th and Alexander Valverde 11th.

This is the situation of the Spaniards, which is pretty good and from now on we have five extremely difficult and select days left. There is little Giro left, but many races and difficulties. This Tuesday Aprica, with the Mortirolo in between, and many accumulated unevenly. It doesn’t climb the hardest part, but the descent is very technical and narrow, which will leave the race selected and then there are two climbs towards the end, the Valico of Santa Cristina, who will be the judge of the race. Another stage, that of Lavaronethat would be important, another test at the end of Sanctuary of Castelmonte and perhaps the hardest stage or one of the hardest, the Saturday, ending on Fedaia Passthe famous marble, a dolomite stage, and the final time trial challenge. At the speed we are going, perhaps the test of time can decide the race, whether this equality between the first four of the overall classification, which is less than a minute, removes any doubts in one of these four top endings.

We should highlight and many of the old rockers, such as Pozzovivowhich is now 5th, which is a Vincenzo Nibalithat after a small initial crisis in Mount Etna, where he lost time, is back one of the best. And if I want to highlight that Movistar He is barely seen in 14 episodes. arks has already made a third after having a leak, stonemason They also finished third, but they need to give more to the Spanish fans and I hope that Movistar These six days of racing the rest of us will try to somehow be seen by the fans and try in every way to win a stage.

We still have a lot of Giro left, even if we only have a week left. “