They are brutes, the insatiable ones, the ones who run to win. Sometimes they put on the mask of Tadej Pogacar or Jonas Vingegaard. Others by Wout van Aert or Mathieu van der Poel. And, in the Volta, Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel. They neither reserve nor know how to run hidden. It’s a pleasure to see you. They are the ones who revalue cycling anywhere on the planet. Yesterday, in France and Italy, and today in the Volta. Does the premiere of the Catalan round point towards a sprint? What difference does it make. They don’t care what terrain they’re on. victory of Roglic and second place of Evenepoel. Who gives more!
Cycling, if it could ever start to be a boring sport, where nothing or little happened until the Tour, has now changed. It is an explosive sport, with rabid and non-conformist riders, hungry like Eddy Merckx 50 years ago, who want to win everything and when they do not succeed, like this Monday in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, they slap their hands on the handlebars before congratulating the winner after crossing the finish line. It is what happened. Roglic he goes out like a madman, convinced that he is, among other things, the best of sprinters. Evenepoel react from behind. I get you, I don’t get you? Well, I don’t get you, by little and because he barely has 50 meters left to win. For this reason, due to that indomitable character that these runners have, Evenepoel gives the rage hit to the handlebars before congratulating Roglic for having won it.
First assault, before the Pyrenees arrive this Tuesday, in Vallter 2,000, to Roglic. The Slovenian cyclist takes the first bonuses to be celebrated by journalists from his country who follow him everywhere. Come on, they can’t keep up! They are the same ones that are with Pogacar; I work a lot, tourism, little.
Landa’s role
It’s like a job for Belgian informers, whether they’re Walloons or Flemish, surrounding Evenepoel, convinced that they are going to win the Volta after some apparently spectacular training sessions on the island of Tenerife. He dresses the Belgian phenomenon in the world champion’s jacket. And the Volta is the first race that he disputes in Europe with the rainbow jersey. Evenepoel cannot be defeated in Catalonia, and even less before Roglicbecause both will meet again in the Giro and you have to show your rival’s claws to lower his temper and so that he sees in the Volta what can be found in Italy.
Mikel Landa watch the battle from behind. He cannot be asked to contest these finishes because he is not a fast cyclist. But he has presented himself to the Volta happy and convinced that he will finally meet the mountains that he has missed up to now. This Tuesday he will be seen in the Pyrenees. You couldn’t ask for a better start from the Volta.
