After the emotional presentation of the teams, the Tour’22 is ready to start shooting

They almost hang the no tickets sign on Tivoli GardensThe famous amusement park in copenhagenthe second oldest amusement park in the world, which will host a performance by 22 starring teams from Friday, July 1, the 109th edition of the Tour de Francein a year where three grand tours through stages, Giro, Tour and Return, They come from beyond its borders. Under the blazing sun and a dedicated public, the presentation of cycling formations took place, each consisting of eight cyclists, again threatened by coronovarius claws, who again slipped into the peloton. Several teams announced last-minute defeats in their formations, both at the rider and technical staff level, and some of them even attended the presentation without all of their members. A covid the protagonist fluctuates again in several trials before the Tour de France and that threatens to shake the yellow caravan at any moment, so the International Cycling Union (UCI) This will protect the peloton from the danger that the race will be lost from one day to the next by a large number of its runners and stars.

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The team Trek-Segafredo was the first to appear on the scene in the delirium of a dedicated and loyal crowd of his Danish compatriots, especially from Jakob Fuglsang and of jonas vingegaard, second last year and even brought tears to his parliament. The team Movistar, included Enrique More in the lead, he was the third to be featured, along with five of his eight Spanish riders for a total of 9 riders born in Spain. This year is the smallest participation of Spaniards in the history of the Tour. From 15 in the last two editions it has become nine this year. Not even all the fingers of both hands are needed to count Enric Mas, Carlos Verona, Gorka Izagirre, Imanol Erviti and Albert Torres (MoviStar), Marc Soler (UAE), Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Luis León Sánchez (Bahrain-Victorius) and Jonathan Castroviejo (Ineos).

The temperature of the sport and atmosphere rises as the performances of the teams and cyclists take place – the only ones who go on stage with helmets are the Lotto Soudal– and some of the most avid fans are Nairo Quintana, Chris Froome and of course the slovenes primoz roglic –Almost in second place in his charisma Danish teammate of Jumbo-Visma Vingegaard-, Wout Van Aert Y Tadej Pogacar. The leader of UAE, with a child’s face and the smile that identifies him, almost precedes the closing of the act: “Thank you for this reception. It’s crazy, there’s a beautiful atmosphere. What is the priority? Fun comes first, you have to end the stages with a smile ”.

This Thursday, the day of press conferences and finalizing the details, before starting filming on Friday, with the first of three stages on Danish soil, with a short engagement time of 13.2 km, in which the champion in the world Filippo Ganna is emerging as the top favorite, before facing the dreaded second day due to gusts of wind, cuts that the peloton may experience and the stress of runners at 18 kilometers of Great Belt Bridge flying in the cold waters of Baltic Sea. Then, there will be time to talk about the uncertainty of the cobblestone, the many difficult mountain stages, the 40-kilometer time trial in the penultimate stage and the aspirations of each rider.

A priori, Tadej Pogacar, winner of the last two editions, starts as the clear favorite. And with the favoritism of ‘Handsome’some questions came up. Roglic with Pogacar? The three times won by the return? will it be a letter Vingegaard the real weapon Jumbo-Visma? as far as you can Enrique More? The road will, as dictated by cycling law, will provide answers and open up new questions.