The team Soudal-Quick Step It is one of those that chose Spain as its center of operation. The Alicante town of Calpe welcomes many of the world’s stars during their winter work, designing their preparation and calendar to face the main races.
The Tour led the expectations of the main cyclists of the international peloton, although not everyone can access the Grand Boucle, because the formations distribute efforts according to their interests. And the Giro d’Italia, the spring classics and, later, the Vuelta a España also have their place in the program.
Soudal-Quick Step He is very clear that his bet is on his Belgian leader Remco Evenepoel He certainly went through the Tour, where he will debut in 2024 with the aim of challenging the Dane’s hegemony Jonas Vingegaarddouble winner after you tame the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.
And the Soudal-Quick Step, Evenepoel and Tour equation is causing changes in the squad’s strategy, as the boss acknowledged on Tuesday in Calpe, Patrick Leveverein statements collected by the France Presse agency.
The boss dropped a prominent victim of the 2024 Tour almost before the official road campaign began. “A priori no, seeing Julian gives himself one hundred percent as a gregarious Remco Evenepoel It’s an image I don’t like.”
It refers to one of the great entertainers of the road, an idol in his country of France, to Julian Alaphilippe, 31 years old and fifth in the 2019 edition, when he taught an unknown version of a cyclist for a day or shorter tests. His record includes six stage wins and eighteen days in yellow on the Tour.
But its director sees it better in Turn aroundfrom May 4 to 26. “It fits his style as an impulsive runner, not always the smartest style but one that fans love.”
Throw away Levevere that this may cause an internal schism. “When a rider is unhappy, he is useless for the team. He had the opportunity to leave because many teams wanted him. I spoke to him, I told him what I wanted to tell him, and we came to an agreement . He told me: Patrick, give me one more winter. It’s up to him to prove it by pedaling. I believe he can still achieve good results,” the Belgian told AFP.
Alaphilippe He has competed six times in the Tour, none in the 2022 Tour due to insufficient recovery from a severe injury and thirty-three in 2023, a year in which he did not give the performance known from previous years.
Source: La Verdad
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