The Female return by Carrefour.es It already serves your first emotions. Movistar Team He has lived a convulsive start due to the sanction in the Counter Real of Barcelona teams, but keeps the ambition for the five decisive stages that remain. Sebas Unzuéresponsible for the women’s team, it takes stock in MARK of this volcanic beginning.
“Let’s go in Cholo Simeone mode, game by game, day by day. Now that we have approached Atlético de Madrid (for its recent alliance with Quantum), it seems that we have taken that spirit. We wanted to play Monday with Cat (Ferguson), but fell into the last curve. Even so, the team is fine. In recent days we will see what options we have for the general, ”explains to this Unzué medium, which is optimistic with the progression of his group and, especially, with the performance of Marlen Reusser. “It’s fine. I think there are real options to make a good general, but you have to take advantage of the opportunities. In the mountain you will see who is really strong.”
The American take the 8.1 kilometers with leaving and finish in the city.
The young leader of the powerful Spanish training also launches a clear message after the punishment suffered in the opening day, where his team was sanctioned. “Those circumstances were given and it is time to look forward. I have ease for that, I think of the fast future without getting stuck with what happened behind. But I also believe that we had to pay the broken dishes for errors and inefficiency throughout the bicycle checkpoint process by the commissioners. There were not enough commissioners and the delays began with the first team. It was unfair. On Sunday I was half an hour with the commissioners and on Monday talking in person, and I still don’t know how the regulation was applied. The serious thing is that the commissioners do not assume mistakes. Even so, we accept the sanction. We accept it because we deserve it. The regulation is very clear. And we committed an infraction when arriving late. But we would like to see that the regulation applies fairly and no exceptions are made as Sunday. ”He says humbly.
The Visma broker, which was not sanctioned, took the exit for a prohibited place in the inaugural chrono of the women’s return.
In spite of everything, he sees his group on the good path. “The balance of the year I think in terms of performance is good. It is clear that the results do not finish arriving, but it is costing us to finish off. I think we are in good dynamics. We are fine, with a good united block. I have confidence that the trend changes. We must be happy, although we know we have to improve and do things to go up. You have to be satisfied even though the results have not arrived. We grab ourselves to what Cente says that we are a summer team, so the results will arrive now, “he says in a fun way.
Sebas Unzué, in the Women’s Tour.Melissa Silva
Tight classification
The race reaches the third day with a very compressed general classification, but conditioned by the first day team chrono. He Lidl-Trek, winner in Barcelona, put several of his runners in the first positions, something that partly distorts the real photography of the race, since the great mountain stages have not yet arrived.
Even so, the leadership is for Letizia Paternoster (Liv AlUla Jayco), That after winning the ESPRNT he has taken his head with six seconds on Femke Gerritse (SD Worx) and eight about Anna Henderson (Lidl-Trek). The Top-10 other three Lidl-Trek runners (Fisher-Black, Markus and Van Anrooij) complete, in addition to illustrious names such as Anna Van Der Brenggen, Mischa Bredwold and Mavi García, all in the same second. A tight general who invites the suspense … until he speaks the mountain.
Five stages ahead to decide everything
On the way back there are still five key stages. This Tuesday the third day is played, completely flat between Barbastro and Huesca (132.4 km), where sprinters and fans can be protagonists again. On Wednesday comes the first notice with a stage of half mountain between Pedrola and Borja (111.6 km), a propitious land for distant attacks or dangerous escapes.
On Thursday, the squad will face the first major mountain day with the end in the Lagunas of Neila, a hard and selective climb after 120.4 kilometers. It will be a turning point in the general. On Friday another flat stage will be lived between Becerril de Campos and Baltanás (126.7 km), prior to the great final climax: on Saturday, the squad will arrive in Asturias to ascend the high of Cotobello, after 152.6 km demanding that will decide the race.
Unzué already warns: “There are stages where the wind can be key. It will not be decisive, but it can serve to remove rivals. We will see the weekend, especially with the mountain. ” For the Navarrese leader, the fight for the red jersey has a proper name: “Demi Vollering is the great favorite. It is at a very high level. But there are other dangerous corridors. The level is very even, as we saw in the Ardenas.”
Ferguson and the promise that grows
Finally, Unzué He wanted to launch a message of support and trust to Cat Ferguson, one of the great promises of world cycling: “He has the pressure of some media, but not on our part. She is a girl with a huge talent, but she is 19 years old. It is time to remember that. You have to go step by step. It has touched a lot of soil this year, but I am optimistic. The bad gusts will pass and others will arrive.
It is one of the jewels of the Navarro team, which will also incorporate in summer to Paula Ohizz. The return continues and Movistar turns to the combative mode with a tight general (conditioned by the controversial initial chrono), and five decisive stages ahead. The Spanish round goes up the temperature. And in Movistar, as Simeone would say, they go to match.
