The passion, resistance and skill of the Cuban Marlies Mejías have shone with intensity in the Bloom tourone of the most prominent events of female and professional cycling in North America. At 32, Mejías, who runs for the team Virginia Blue Ridge Twenty28has once again demonstrated his perseverance and talent in the world of sports, placing himself on the cusp of the general classification and in the table by points of the competition, after the closure of the first two dates.
On a day marked by strategy and speed, Mejías went up to the podium again at the end in second place in a 40 km criterium in Wenatchee, a scenario where he continued adding pleasant news to his excellent results of the year. He only reached the goal behind the American Alia Shafi, who entered with a time of 54:50 minutes.
The Cuban, who recently won a silver medal in the Pan -American Pan American Track Championship in Asunción, had secured a valuable third place in the initial stage of 93.5 km on Friday in Wateville. In this way, he accumulated points that placed it in the first position of that department and catapults it to the leadership of the general individual classification.
With this partial location, Marlies Mejías is positioned as the favorite in the struggle for the yellow shirt and keeps the hope of achieving a historical triumph in the tournament, in the absence of playing the three final days. This achievement constitutes another step in search of its main objective, which is to get a ticket for the Los Angeles Olympic Games, in the United States, where he would go to the third summer event of his career.
