The fact that better than anyone sums up the supremacy of UAE Team Emirates in the cycling peloton

Without much noise and without the undisputed leader Tadej Pogacarhe UAE Team Emirates appeared on the line departure of the 79th edition of La Vuelta in Lisbon with the intention of showing off the muscle he had previously shown at Tour de France and in the Giro d’Italia, with the tremendous success of Pogacar. To stay on the path of victory they trust, a priori, in the legs of the Portuguese João Almeida and the British Adam Yatesbut, to the surprise of everyone, even the protagonist, the first race lead was achieved by American Brandon McNulty.

At 26 years old, McNulty wears the leader’s jersey of a grand tour for the first time in his career. The American has already won one stage: at 2023 Giro d’Italiathis year he found the honeys of success in Return to the Valencian Community and the Miguel Indurain Grand Prizeand now has the privilege of wearing red in the Spanish round, in the 15th consecutive stage of a top American cyclist of The Returnafter Sepp Kuss will lead the classification from stage 8 until his final victory in Madrid.

McNulty head of the general classification, of regularity and UAE already leading the team classification, in a clear display of its ambitious intentions in La Vuelta, and this season the UAE Team Emirates wore the jersey of the leader in 40 of the 43 stages so far completed between the Giro, the Tour and the start of this La Vuelta: 20 days of Tadej Pogačar’s lead in the Giro, 19 days of Tadej Pogačar’s lead in the Tour and 1 day for now by Brandon McNulty at La Lap.

Only Jhonatan Narváez (1 pink jersey), Romain Bardet (1 yellow jersey) and Richard Carapaz (1 yellow jersey) They managed to briefly break this hegemony of the formation of the Arab Emirates.