With the echoes of the exhibition of Tadej Pogacar last Sunday’s Zurich World Cup is still reverberating, several heavyweights of the peloton continue to compete this Saturday in Giro dell’Emilia. Among them, the Slovenian runner himself and a Movistar team who announced this Wednesday the gala lineup for the Italian event.
Enric Mas He will be the great leader of the phone team at the start of Vignora, in a style race where the Spanish team will present a team with full guarantee. Nairo Quintana, Pelayo Sánchez, Davide Formolo, Will Barta, Jorge Arcas and Oier Lazkano They will complete the team.
As this test is one of the big tests before the last big event of the season, the Tour of Lombardy next Saturday on the 12th This will make the list of stars extensive, with Remco Evenepoel and Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal Quick-Step), Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), Juan Ayuso (UAE Emirates) or Simon Yates (Jayco AlUla), among others.
And yes, so is he. Pogacar He will return to action this Saturday to debut his rainbow jersey in an Italian event missing from his record. The Slovenian has paid special attention to the Giro de Lombardia since the pandemic and his roadmap has always included this Giro dell’Emilia and the Tres Valles Varesinos. He will do the Italian triplet for the fourth year in a row, after releasing in previous seasons a Milan-Turin he ran in 2021. Champion in Lombardy in the last three seasons and winner of the Three Valles Varesinos in 2022, this Giro dell’Emilia rivals him on his record– Did not finish in 2021 and came second in 2022 and 2023.
Last year he gave up on Primoz Roglic, but In 2022 he did exactly that against Enric Mas with a great front and who wants to extend his good time in a career that brings him good memories. What was achieved two years ago was the sixth and so far the last victory for the Balearic runner on the circuit and, after great sensations both in his third place in the Vuelta a España and the eighth place achieved in the last World Championship, Mas dreams of repeating the milestone in a race where the great favorite is Pogacar with his rainbow jersey.
Source: La Verdad
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