After a lackluster campaign restart and a weak start to the Tour, the Spanish team shows hopeful signs
Alejandro Valverde and Enric Mas during stage 4 of the 2020 Tour.
“Right now, 2:25 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1, I say that @Movistar_Team is going to go very fast on this Tour. I think that every day they are improving and finding sensations. The second and third week will be key and it gives me that they are in the phase of growth. Previous careers weren’t his goal. ” With this tweet I was risking this afternoon Luis Pasamontes Rodriguez. Hours after the comment, 16 riders entered the time of the winner of the fourth stage of the 2020 Tour de France with the finish at the summit of Orcires-Merlette, the first goal on top of this edition. None from the Movistar Team, but Enric Mas lost only nine seconds and Alejandro Valverde entered the goal a little more behind, to 21. Although his motto is ‘my opinion is not correct, it is only mine’, you have to take into account the intuition (surely with fundamentals) of this Asturian that as a child he pedaled among the rumors of the Narcea with the adventurous dream of being a professional cyclist and opening up to the world, which he achieved between 2003 and 2012 (Relax, Unibet, Caisse d’Epargne, Movistar Team and Movistar Ecuador).
As soon as the stage ends, Marc Soler -who entered 1:17 minutes from Roglic- gave a good part of the reason to Pasamontes: “Both Enric and Alejandro have finished close to the best. I am sure that as the days go by we will go further forward. You have to think that there is a lot of Tour left, that this has only just begun and with everything that remains, for example in the Alps, this be very, very tough“.
What happened at the Dauphin
Of course, no one thinks today that one of the telephone operators is going to win this Tour. But getting stronger and playing during the race is an inescapable goal for the only Spanish team in the first category of world cycling. Along the same lines, hours later, Alejandro Valverde explained: “At the beginning of the Tour everyone is very strong. There are teams that put a very strong rhythm that makes it impossible to attack; if you move, you are going to leave again to back again. ” The former Murcian world champion stressed: “This is going little by little for the better. We notice better sensations, people must be aware that the Tour is very long.” And I wrote something that makes us all think, because it makes a lot of sense: “We have already seen a very strange Dauphin, with a last day of great changes and great surprises and here on the Tour more of the same can happen”.
Pasamontes was a modest and honest runner away from personal victories, but in love with cycling and his work in the peloton for the benefit of the team and its leaders. He retired without victories at the age of 33 (he is half a year older than Alejandro Valverde, whom he served at the Caisse d’Epargne and Movistar), but he has not stopped pedaling, sometimes for charity and solidarity purposes. At the same time, he has developed a career of commentator in the Cope cycling transmissions, collaborates in the magazine Ciclismo a Fondo and a year ago published a Excellent book, The leadership of the gregarious, which is a compendium of their experiences and a guide that places the work of anyone in any company as the first stone of future success. This is also intended with the Liga de Gregarios, a club that connects athletes with company people. How has good relationships and knowledge more than enough, his prediction of a Movistar Team that illusions must be taken into consideration.
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