The British Adam Yates (UAE)solo winner of the ninth episode of Back to Spainsaid, after crossing the finish line, that “he had never suffered in this way before”, especially affected by the high temperature which made him sweat “profusely”, a surprising admission in the case of a cyclist who fought a thousand battles. his 32 years.
“I’ve never suffered like this before. It’s so hot. Since the last climb, I’ve been dripping as much as I can, and I don’t know if I can handle it. I’ve had a lot of bad luck over the year in the grand tours, and not I really know if I can do it well,” Yates said in Granada.
The cyclist from Bury is especially excited about scoring another victory on a big career stage, as he won the 2023 Tour, on the Bilbao stage.
“I’m very happy to have been able to win another stage in a great lap. It was a great team effort with Marc Soler and Jay Vine to work on the breakaway. They left me the perfect terrain. Marc has done an incredible job to maintain a very high pace, and then at Hazallanas, Jay went full force until it was just me and Gaudu,” he commented.
Finally, the cyclist from Bury knows how to suffer to the point of exhaustion to achieve his Vuelta a España debut.
“I saw that Gaudu was suffering from the heat, and I was suffering too, but I knew I had to try. And from that moment, it was only a matter of suffering and suffering until the end. Actually, I was not interested in general classification in all “This time everything is for the stage,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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