The 2022 Tour data showing the decline of Spanish cycling

Performance more gray than Spanish cycling in 109th edition of the Tour de France. What to Denmark There were only nine patriotic runners who started, the lowest number since 1972, and it didn’t exactly invite optimism. In all of them, the highest hope is pinned Enrique Mas, but the Balearic got off the bike before the time was penalized by covidbut far from the best, in an image that reflects the situation of Spanish cycling.

Mark Soler He had his moments of glory but always submitted to team discipline, U.A.Ebefore also having to leave, and only Luis Leon Sanchez had a real chance to fight on a stage, being 3rd on the day of Megève. Finally, the Murcian Mule will finish at 38 years old as the best Spanish cyclist in the 109th edition of the Tour de France, 14th, a classification he did not imagine at the beginning, but far from the top ten, for the first time in 24 years no Spanish cyclist enters the top ten of the overall Tour. The last one was in 1998, with the success of Marco Pantani.

Movistar, 65 years without a stage in the Tour

It’s been three years since Nairo Quintana scored the Movistar Team’s last victory at the ‘Grande Boucle’ in Valloire. Since then, 65 stages without a win: the longest drought for Eusebio Unzué’s men in the French round. Carlos Verona came closest to raising his arms this July by finishing 3rd at Châtel Les Portes du Soleil. Special mention for Matteo Jorgenson, present in a thousand worthy breakaways and three times classified in the top five in his first Tour de France.

It is a bad omen for Spanish cycling, where more than a hundred stages must be added to one of the three grand tours, Giro, Tour and Vuelta, that a Spanish cyclist has not achieved victory.