Mireia Benito: “The return to Barcelona? The world sees Catalonia as a cycling paradise and must show that it is”

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With the lesson learned providing 4,057 kilometers of competition of 2024, the Catalan cyclist Mireia Benito It faced the 2025 season with enthusiasm, after a demanding campaign, in which he faced the well-known classics, the Vuelta, the Olympic Games and the World Championship.

“Last year it was full of grateful moments and others not so much, where I learned a lot. Managing an Olympic game was an unexpected situation, because I prepared it with great effort and enthusiasm, but unfortunately at the sporting level I suffered a crash during the time trial and a puncture on the route route which did not allow me to enjoy it as much as I would have liked.

Looking at this year “I need to continue to improve in general, but mainly I work on improving more explosive races. Last year I could have the confidence of the team to play some test level .1 and it helped me to trust more My abilities and believe that I can have different roles depending on the career and interest of the team.

A 2025 where “the main goal is to try to argue a career at the international level and continue to contribute the maximum to the team in World tour level trials To get better results as a team. This year the team is stronger and we are more motivated than before, so I hope that luck is with us and we can show the good atmosphere and teamwork between us.

To do this, Benito is with his companions of AG Insurance-Soudal Team Concentrate this January on Calpewith views to face the best guaranteed its debut weekend in Mallorca, as in 2024, with Marratxi-Felanitx trophy Now, followed Trophuu Palma Fèmina (Sunday) and of Binissalem-andratx trophy on Monday. “Compeating is when I enjoy the crowd and, although the starts are always difficult, I want to see what is the starting point of this year and put the thread and needle to continue improving the weaknesses and enhance the strength even more.”

Delighted at the start of the tour 2025 women in Barcelona

The MD advanced that the women’s 2025 comeback will start in Barcelonaa start that comforted him. “I got a great joy when I found out that one of the three most important laps of the women’s calendar will start at home, in Catalonia. I think it is a bold and necessary choice to teach everyone that we have an exceptional territory, not only for tourism but to grow at the level of sports and culture. I love seeing the city of Barcelona full of small and small animals and seeing that sport can also be a work option for them and theirs. It is very special to run Volta to Catalonia In the first three-day edition, seeing the great organization, the great amount of spirits on the road and through the roads of the house. All this does not make another race but can live more intensely and makes the maximum even more squeezed.

And Mireia is clear that “I have been lucky enough to travel to many territories and I have no doubt that we are privileged to have what we have. An ideal combination of flat and semi-mountainous terrain in a radius of just over 50km .

Source: La Verdad

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