There is still no official confirmation of the team UAEbut the photograph made by the Polish Rafal Majka with the seven runners who have made a cycle in height in Sierra Nevada To prepare the Giro de Italiacon Juan Ayuso At the head, it is premonitory. Navarro Igor Arrieta It will be one of the eight components of the Emirati team in the Rosa Corsa, which begins next day 9 in Durës, Albania. Who will not be is the other Navarro who opted to enter the eight of the INEOS, Óscar Rodríguezwhich now points more towards the return to Spain.
Unless unlikely change of last minute there will be a Navarrese in the Italian turn three years later. It will be the Uhartera Igor Arrieta, 22 years old and that militates in the UAE. The last to participate was Oscar Rodríguez in 2022, when he ran with the Movistar, who had to get off in stage 11 due to an ugly fall, which brought him important injuries in a kidney.
Debut
Igor Arrieta has prepared his debut in his first big one in stages with care. Its premiere in a three -week race will be in the turn in which it is its Fourth full season as a professionalthe second in the UAE. The pink corsa is its great goal of the season. He will arrive at the departure of Albania with 23 days competed, and a first part of the season in which he has had to work hard for his teammates, and in which he has also enjoyed his little opportunities as in the Coppi-Bartali week in which he finished third in the general.
Arrieta will be enrolled in a very potent UAE, who pursues from the beginning of the season all the records of victories. The Emirati team will try to reissue the triumph achieved last year by Pogacarbut this time you will have a bicefalia composed of Juan Ayuso and Adam Yates. From them two hangs a team in which any of its components could be the leader of other formations: Isaac del Toro, Brandon McNulty, Rafal Majka, Jay Vine and Filippo Baroncini. The Italian and the Uhartarra are new in the big laps.
Oscar will look around
Who is not going to be in the Giro of Italy is Óscar Rodríguez, since the ineos Grenadiers has opted for a team led by Egan Bernal And that they complete it: Arensaman, Castroviejo, Hamilton, Rivera, Heiduck, Tarling and Turner.
The Navarro cyclist, who turns his second year in the British structure, is scheduled to do in May Dunquerke and Norway. The logical thing is to be in the return.
