This Saturday at the Paris Olympic Games the men’s road cycling event will be held. Oier Lazkano, Alex Aranburu and Juan Ayuso will make up the Spanish team for this test, and they predict that it will be “a crazy race” where they will have to be attentive to any movement.
“It will be a crazy, atypical race,” said Juan Ayuso, Oier Lazkano and Alex Aranburu, the Spanish representatives in the road race, which will be held on a 273-kilometer route.
“I don’t remember a race like this, with these qualities it’s hard to find, it’s atypical, strange, but you have to adapt to it. We don’t start as favorites, but we can have more options,” Ayuso said. The cyclist from Jávea arrived in time to make his Olympic debut after withdrawing from the Tour de France due to Covid.
“The recovery from Covid cost me more than other times, but I recovered in the best way. I am at a good level to compete in the race,” he said.
On the other hand, Juan Ayuso joked about his relationship with his teammates in these Games.
“When we have dinner, I put myself at the very end of the table, he joked. I don’t know Alex very well, but I know Oier, we have a good relationship, and that will be important tomorrow. We will live a crazy race. , the three of us must be cooperative and forward,” he highlighted.
Aranburu, Spanish road champion, will also compete in the Olympic Games for the first time, and he will do it with enthusiasm:
“It’s my first time at the Games and I think we will have a very crazy, open race. We used to teams of 8. If a cut of 15 runners left it can change everything, we have to be attentive, play there and talk quickly about what’s going on,” Aranburu commented.
Oier Lazkano, national time trial champion, was the only Spanish representative who came on Thursday to check the route.
“It is a very technical circuit, not as flat as they said, it has curves, islands, slopes, it will not be easy. It has a bad cobblestone section, but before getting there the race could be done,” he explained.
Source: La Verdad
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