Oh! if she were a little more explosive. Is the Tour Femmes flat? Only in the profile that appears in the road book, because on the bike there are some slopes that force you to snort, but there is Mavi García, as soon as the road rises, as soon as you see an elevation that instead of Mutigny should be called Julian Alaphilippe, for his brilliant attack on the 2019 Tour that he almost won. He is among the best, among the four most fantastic in this French round. And alas! if she were more explosive she would have fought with more options to win the third stage in Epernay, the homeland of champagne, where all you see on the horizon, if you look up, are vineyards and more vineyards.
mavi garcia, Majorcan from Marratxí, is already sixth overall, and the test has only just begun. In three days he has already stood out more than the Spanish male runners who, unfortunately, signed a Tour very far from the epic of Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar, who tired, finally, will not be in the Vuelta although he will be in his team John Ayuso to give a youthful revolt character to the Spanish round with Carlos Rodriguez y Juanpe Lopezthose who knock on the door of cycling fame.
Corre mavi garcia to fight for the Tour and he does it smelling the blood of his rivals. at the exit of Reims She looks so focused on her own thing that she can’t even find the door between fences that allows her to enter the podium where the teams present themselves. “Bonjour, bonjour!” she is waving Annemiek van Vleutenthe leader of Movistar, a priori the main favorite for victory, but who, without making a serious mistake, sets off the alarm when she loses gas on the final slopes of Epernay and even gives up 20 seconds at the finish line.
Four Spanish cyclists
The Spanish participation among the women who have attended the Tour is not very high. There are only four. When the men ran there were only nine. They are not figures to get chest, but here they fight for the Tour. mavi garcia is a ‘top’ favourite; a good climber, but without mountains she still moves attentively in a terrain that is not yet hers.
Sandra Alonso, a cyclist from Torrevieja who lives like so many other colleagues in Andorra, is here to stand out on the plain and to show that the good feelings he offered in Paris-Roubaix were a sign of the future. “I’m going to try to make the most of my chances but it’s already wonderful to be on the Tour,” she says.
Ane Santesteban He has experience in world championships, in Games but he has not reached the Tour in his best form. “A few weeks ago I had covid and it has left me too tired to be able to recover each day as I would like.”
The fight for the stage
Sheila Gutierrez, Riojan like good wine, is strangely the only Spanish in Movistar, but she runs tied by bike and legs at the service of Van Vleuten. “Everyone in the team knows that in the Tour we only have to be aware of her. Nothing more”.
And the last 15 kilometers arrive where the best are already ahead. does not fail mavi garcia although he is left without the option of fighting for the third stage that he wins Cecile Ludwig. Where is the woman from? From Denmark, nothing to add, Your Honor.
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