“I’m tired of running with Pogacar and always won the same. You see the watts moving and you know the result,” said exprofesional on the Luis ángel Maté route, claiming from Titan Desert de Morocco a turning “near people.”
Maté (Marbella, 41 years old) and Costa Rican Andrey Amador, former Movistar, Ineos and EF education, are sharing a long way through the world -touring squad, and now enjoy the essays of other cycling, far from the high competition and mechanism installed at a very important sport.
Both are enjoying another type of bike the proximity of cycling to people and the unity of more than 500 titanium participants. This Thursday, in Merzouga, the 20th edition of Titan Desert, ‘El Dakar’ of BTT begins.
“Pogacar fed me and always won the same. Seeing watts moving each other, you know who will win,” he studied at Merzouga Maté.
According to ‘Marbella Lynx’, professionalism has led to cycling to be “a mechanical activity, in which everything is up, allowing exhibitions such as Pogacar and Van der Poel.”
“These demonstrations have moved away from cycling their origins. Before this is the romantic sport of Coppi and Bartali, next to the people. Cycling is the sport of the people and we cannot stay away from it. With excessive technique and control, contact with people is gone,” Maté explained to Merzouga, next to ERG Chebbi dune.
Now, as a debutant to Titan, Maté lives a different cycling in the BTT world.
“Now I have different people, with another cycling, cycling is not just Watts, and I want to recover the source of cycling with people with the same concerns. I always say the bike will change the world,” he said.
Maté, with the experience of 3 titanium of Almeria, came with “highly expected in a racing part of Morocco’s history and idiosyncrasy, with 4 historical lustries, and it exceeded sports.”
Amador: “On cycling on the road I felt a machine”
Costa Rican Andrey Amador (San José, 38), 11 periods of the current Movistar structure, came to win a stage of Italy touring and dressed even leading the Maggia Rosa de. In 2024 he hung the mountain bike, and after a few doubts, he joined his great desire, the Mountain Bike.
“I was diligent in the bike, without a bicycle was like being punished. Bicycles were professional and the cyclist went public. I used to feel like a machine, I always did the same, I didn’t enjoy the bike, the fact that coffee could stop …” said the Tico Cyclist.
At 37, Amador forgot the bicycle route and at BTT he returned to my origins, to see people, who were not in the professional cycling bubble. “Now, sharing a Jaima with colleagues is something that fills me, making me happy,” he said.
Maté and Andrey Amador will wear KH7 Jersey, a team that adds more than 50 runners to the Moroccan trial. The captain of the route is Josep Betalú, ‘Desert Fox’, with 4 titles in his note. His advice will be the basic to return to the essence of a cycling to enjoy, not to suffer.
Source: La Verdad
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