Mikel Landa has renewed with the team Soudal Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team hasta 2026. Belgian formation has announced the contractual extension in the previous Giro de Italiathe great objective of the Alavés season. The support of the team is total and the sensations are good, so the Spanish cyclist will look for a new podium in the ‘Corsa Rosa’ at 35 years.
This agreement has confirmed the good relationship and comfort of Landa in the structure. “I am very happy to continue here in ‘La pack of wolves’. I already feel one of them after a season and a half, So I am very happy to continue running together and fighting for new goals, “he said in the video released by El Soudal.
The story of Mikel Landa with the Italian turn has been quite fruitful in the past. The cyclist has risen to the podium twice, in 2015 and 2022, and has added the classification of the mountain in 2017 and three stage victories. He returns after two years of absence, but with a clear objective, as stressed at the airport before leaving Albania: “The podium would be a dream. I have been twice, I find myself well, I have experience … it could be achieved, but it will be difficult, so we will also think about a stage that is something that I have not get and I would leave me very satisfied.”
In the first ‘great return’ of the season, Murguía is clear that there are two runners above the rest, but also a huge list of podium candidates: “Many rivals. From Roglic and Ayusowhich are the great favorites, but without forgetting Roglic’s companions, such as Martínez and Hindley, Pidcock, Carapaz, Simon Yates, Adam Yates, Storer, Gaudu... for the moment, many out. “Of course, their performances have been good this 2025. It started with a 11th place in the Strade Bianche, a hard classic and that did not know. From there, it ended 7th and 4th in the Adriatic Tyrrhen and the Volta to Catalunya, respectively. In addition, the cyclist himself has recognized in an interview on the channel Port of port That his preparation this year has been more progressive, also thinking about the Tour of France.
-Thinking about the tour, Landa You will have to save the counterreloj stages in the best possible way. In total, they will travel 42.3 kilometers against the chronoa more than considerable distance where Spanish can leave a good part of its options, especially in front of Roglic and Ayuso. Even so, the hardness of the last days of the turn is enormous: “We have a couple of stages in which I have already been. It brings me very good memories and wanting to get with options at that last week.”
He Giro de Italia It will begin today in Albania with the official presentation of the teams at 6:30 p.m. (CET hours). For its part, the race will officially start this Friday, May 9 with a trap stage between Durrës and 160 kilometers. There, they will crown the ascent to Surrel, third category and 7 kilometers to 4.5 percent to 12 target, which can give a lot of play in the fight for the first pink jersey.
