Juan Ayuso valued this Friday in Tirana, where this Friday starts Giro de Italia 2025, The cover of the day MARK where he exercises as the main protagonist. He does it with an accomplice smile to see the ‘lid’, in which he appears eating a dish of spaghetti under the headline: “I am not afraid of the pressure” and the word game ‘A ride al dente ‘.
“Al dente … It is a turn where I hope to have to eat a lot of pasta and load many carbohydrates to do justice to the cover”responds with laughter the cyclist of Jávea. “Hopefully everything goes well. During the turn we can get up to 30 dishes like that. In the last week there will be stages where we will consume about 6,000 calories, so we have to eat between 8,000 and 9,000,” explains Ayuso, aware of what a large round of three weeks demands.
With humility and a lot of work behind
The UAE knows that he has pressure on top, but he is confident to make a good result. He does not become obsessed with winning and is aware that a podium would already be a magnificent result. It is not fixed in the statistics that remember that only two Spaniards have won the turn (Indurain and Accountant) and that, since the Pinteño was achieved 10 years ago, no one has repeated deed.
Ambitious but prudent, the leader of the UAE Team Emirates closes his reflection with a desire that excites Spanish fans: “I hope at the end of the turn there is another cover … but with Senza Fine.”
