Two years ago, Remco Evenepoel Y Primoz Roglic (35 years) fought an intense battle in the Volta to Catalonia that was resolved with the Triumph of the Slovenian. Then they gathered in the Tour of Italy, with very different outcomes. The Belgian retired mid-career for the happy Covid-19 when he was a leader, while Roglic proclaimed himself champion. Now, identical jour second duel of the season in the Pink race.
Jávea’s is presented to his first turn as a flag bearer of the Spanish hope, to end a drought in big turns that has lasts for ten years, precisely since Alberto Accountant, his idol, raised his arms in the 2015 turn. For this he arrives with the conviction of having made his homework, and with an outstanding note, after five victories in 2025, among which a Spectacular hand to Roglic in La Molina. Then, the last day of the race, he gave the general leadership before the masterclass which taught the Slovenian in Montjuïc.
To try to impose this time in the generational duel (13 years they separate them) that drives the narrative of this turn, Ayuso will have a team behind them with Arrieta, Toro, McNulty, Majka and Vine, In addition to a Adam Yates That, given the disadvantage you will have regarding the Spanish between the two counterrelojes (42 km total), it should work for him. However, the campus of squires that Roglic will deploy will be at least at that level: Pellizzari, Hindley (champion in 2022) and the runner -up of the last edition, Dani Martínez. To equal forces, the collective pulse could be the determining factor in this turn.
On paper, both of them are going well for one more year that is committed to concentrating most of their hardness in the last week. There will not be many of the mythical colossi of the test (Giau, Pedardoi, Gavia, Stelvio, Zoncolan …), but ascents such as the mortirolo (for its friendliest aspect) and a finisher (Cima Coppi) that is postulated as the final judge of the race, with the addition of Sestriere to reach the finish line, in the penultimate stage. But that no one falls into the error of thinking that it will be a more bearable turn, as was the last year that allowed Pogacar to assault the double with the Tour of France, since they will have to overcome more than more than 52,000 meters of unevenness positive, 8,000 more Regarding the edition of 2024.
The knowledge of the land, despite being the turn of its debut, will not be a handicap for Ayuso, whose sports career has been closely linked to Italy. And not only because this year was conquered with solvency his first tyrerhotic, but because he lived there during his stay in the team Colpack, colors with which won the sub-23 turn Before making the jump to the first template of the UAE Team, in the middle of that year 2021. Its good speed tip can also bear good fruits in the novelty introduced by the race this year: the ‘Kilometer Red Bull’. To use, an intermediate sprint, but its strategic location at a single point of each stage online (19 in total) intends to involve the general’s men in the struggle of those 6, 4 and 2 seconds. The maximum booty, 1:54. Award at all negligible.
On days like counterrelojes and especially in a ninth stage in the purest style White roads (Almost 30 km of earth) that can give a lot of play, they point to protagonists those who intend to twist with the show, without thinking about the general. There are two highly pedigree debutants, such as Wout van Aert y Tom Pidcock, In addition to cyclists such as Mads Pedersen, Nairo Quintana, Filippo Carrio, Pello Bilbao, Kaden Groves, Olav Kooij or Sam Bennett.
In general, and pointing to the podium, there will be men like Richard Carapaaz, Egan Bernal, Adam and Simon Yates, Antonio Tiberi, Derek Gee, Giulio Ciccone, David Gaudu, Romain Bardet (in his last turn) and, especially, Mikel rural, the otra baza of a participation Spanish more numerous than in 2024 (from five to twelve). The game board, with the first three boxes in Albania, a country that first hosts the Great departure, It is willing. Welcome to the Giro de Italia.
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