The intense challenge of 10 Spanish cyclists who have taken over Tour de France 2025

The best athletes want to be at the best events and, by expanding, the best cyclists want to be in the most outstanding trials and the Tour de France It is the most important breed of cycling in the world and one of the few sports events capable of paralyzing a country and focusing the half -world of attention to the 21 stages recorded.

As usual, the squad of ‘Grande Boupl’ It was formed by 184 cyclists in 23 teams, of which ten, only ten, would be Spanish. This is the lowest number of years, after 15 of 2024 and the 14 of 2023, and another of 2022. The Spaniards who will have the honor of participating in the 112th edition of the tour will Enric Mas, Pablo Castrillo, Iván Romeo and Iván García Cortina on the Movistar, Marc Soler team at the UAE Team Emirates, Carlos Rodríguez in Ineos, Izagirre and Alex Aranburu at Cofidis and Raúl García Leg and Cristian Rodríguez in Arké-B & bottles.

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Again, phone training is the squad that more Spanish representatives contribute, to an army with many and sensitive casualties. Among them are standing Mikel Landa (Th -5 in 2024 to General and Remco’s best allies on the mountain), Juan Ayuso (which did not end last year’s tour of his debut and this year he marked on the route the Giro of Italy, who did not graduate) or Bilbao Pello, with five career participants and in the 6th area of ​​2023 as the best result.

Different points in sight

Of the ten selected, the two who suffer behind them are the leadership of their formations are Enric more and carlos rodríguez. Almuñécar (24 years old)That in 2023 he changed Ineos and told him not to have a condition with the condition that the team was leading the tour, achieving an amazing -wonderful victory in Portes Du Soleil in 2023 and this would be his third career presence. It is 5th in 2023 and 7th in 2024, and is confident. “It was a bit hard to start in the fall of February, but I was able to recover quickly. So far everything is gone as planned. We will go out and seek to be the lead.”

The same sensation is leading to the legs of Enric pa. In 30 years, the Artà He faced his sixth tour with a will to approach his two best results: th -5 to 2020 and 6th to 2021. “We came for the best position in general. Psychologically and physically we reached well. From the preseason to the present, I enjoyed it. I expected to continue doing it and removed the thorn that I had in the last three years.”

The rest of the Spaniards have different responsibilities, some have a mission to protect their leaders and others with the desire to try to achieve the best results for their teams.

40 years of French drought on tour

The years were passing by and French cycling still had not seen a tour winner and it cost him the scars -it was terrible that one of his athletes walked into the podium. In fact, the last Gallic cyclist who appeared in the final picture was Romain Bardet (3rd in 2017), which was a year before the 2nd, after Jean-Christophe Péraud was also second in 2014, leading the Thibaut Pinot. To find a winner in France, you had to travel in 1985, when Bernard Hinaault achieved his fifth success, leading American Greg Lemond and Irishman Stephen Roche. Asked about this drought, the ‘building’ showed frustration: “Sadly no French won the tour. We are a country of cycling. I am sorry that there is no good champion with unusual physical practice, like some countries. It is alive

For all this, Spain cycling has more of the complex glory in Paris and matching the last podium -Valverde In 2015- or Victoria, the Counter In 2009. Spain was the third country with the most touring titles (12) and 30 podiums, and 5 -5 with the most victory on stage (131), for 717 of France, the 496 of Belgium or 270 of Italy, the countries leading the classroom waiting for what would happen in the 112nd edition of the tour, now beginning in Lille.