The Movistar Team signs a start of 2023 that continues the end of 2022
I don’t know when the click was, when the team realized that things couldn’t continue that way, when they realized their disconnection with the fans, but the last stretch of 2022 and the initial, very initial, of 2023 is setting very well in Movistar Team.
It was not easy to correct the shot.
Two years ago around this time, even 12 months ago, we looked at the blue group and thought about how far we saw them from current cycling.
I know, as is said a lot, that what has been seen so far is still a preamblean appetizer prior to what is to come mainly in two and a half weeks, when the classic campaign begins in Belgium, but no one is aware that right now in cycling everything is competed as if it were the same Tour de France.
I remember two years ago, when I had Carlos García Pierna and his father Félix García Casas on the podcast and the father pointed out how he explained to his son that in a Besseges Star the performances were worthy of the Tour de France.
Unlike twenty years ago, today everything is run with a knife, and the stars appear from the first day.
In the cycling of the eighties or nineties, the leaders of the rows often went out to train with a bib number, with no competitive agreement with the race, although letting themselves be seen and loved at the start and finish line of each stage.
In that cycling we have seen Movistar many times these years, a cycling that is very far from what is seen in 2023.
The team has understood and practices what they have experienced this time.
It’s not just the three victories anymore, it’s the commitment and image that is given in the race, sometimes a bit frayed, like in the Tour of Valencia, but at least there is attitude.
Besides sprinting has never been a house specialtyI remember a Volta, not long ago, in which Valverde had to prepare the arrival at Rojas, and in the end the first one ended up winning.
For this reason, the team’s attitude is joined by the locker and who signs the wins, two of the three signings.
Fernando Gaviria laid the egg in San Juan, a race that is not the Giro but that did have powerful people in the sprint.
The Colombian is one of the best sprinters in the world, who quickly amassed a large part of his record and has had a hard time in recent times.
Ruben Guerreiro, for his part, must go furtherthe Saudi Tour was something that was within his possibilities, but I see him with freedom and capable of repeating a stage in a Giro, where he already knows what winning means.
The team seems to have recovered their identity with the people, who also show them affection and good vibes when they do it and do it well.
In the absence of entering the important, The Movistar Team has managed to solve one of the unknowns at the start of the 2023 campaignstart this one as they finished the previous one, now the difficulty will come with the passing of the days, the important thing is to run each day as if it were the last
I know, it’s easy to say, but reality shows us that things have gotten that expensive
