“Blessed be the problem Belgium has,” he exclaims. Pascual MomparlerSpanish coach, from Glasgow. And it is that the Belgian team for the Road Cycling World Championship, which takes place this Sunday, is a blessing, almost as if they entered the tunnel of time and reunited with Eddy Merckx, Lucien van Impe y Freddy Maertens, in the 70s of the last century; on one side is Remco Evenepoel, who defends last year’s title, and the other, Wout van Aert. The only thing that puts their performance in question is that, being Flemish residents, the friendship thing goes another way, and the anger between the two is so great that, if one wins, the other will feel like a loser more than a winner.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) had an idea that convinced some and raised quite a bit of criticism. He decided that he would agglutinate in a single city each four years to the world championships in all disciplines: road, track, mountain bike and BMX. He only left gravel aside, because he is in fashion and promotion (and with Alejandro Valverde). It will run on October 7 in Italy.
Let the games begin ????
Bring on the inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow and across Scotland ????????????????????????????#GlasgowScotland2023 pic.twitter.com/aDVs3Eo2Pk
— UCI (@UCI_cycling) August 2, 2023
In other words, in one week 13 world championships are held, in both sexes, with more than 8,000 runners, from the junior category, traveling to Scotland, but with the problem that the media impact due to the presence of the big stars (Evenepoel, Van Aert, Tadej Pogacar, Mathieu van der Poel, Julian Alaphilippein the lead) obscure the feat of all the other participants, especially those who want to shine in the velodrome or with the mountain bike and with too many medals in so few days.
The surprise
“We will try to surprise in the authentic gymkhana that is the urban circuit of Glasgow. The normal thing is that we classify from seventh onwards”, he comments. mom talker. He is reminded that in 1999 nobody gave a penny in Verona for a cyclist named Óscar Freire. Everyone was asking who he was and where he had come from. He three times he was world champion. Cyclists like Ion Izagirre, winner of a stage in the Tour, and the representatives of Movistar, with Ivan Garcia Cortina y Alex Aranburu, to the head. “Next year, in Zurich, on a hard circuit that is good for climbers, it will be different because we will be able to take Carlos Rodríguez, Juan Ayuso, Enric Mas and Pello Bilbao”, which are big words.
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— UCI Para-Cycling (@UCI_paracycling) August 2, 2023
And it is that the Scottish circuit does not give for more. “For me, Pogacar is the best rider in the world, but I think the circuit lacks toughness for him to break the World Cup. The logical thing is that a group of 30 or 40 cyclists arrive”.
By Teledeporte and Eurosport
Se salt of Edinburgh120 of the 271 programmed link kilometers are covered, with a hill in the middle, and you arrive at Glasgow where there will be 11 laps of 14.3 kilometers between streets, hills, small descents, curves to the right, to the left and, on top of that, with the threat of rain. “With the sun and 14 degrees, although it is cool, the weather is pleasant, but rain is announced for the decisive phase of the race”, adds the Spanish coach. And it is there, between wet streets, where the risk of falling enters and the reason for the resignation of the majority of the cyclists who go to the Vuelta (it begins on August 26 in Barcelona). The organization of the Spanish round itself was upset that the World Cup was held earlier. He forced them to delay the test for a week and for months, until Jonas Vingegaard confirmed his attendance at the Spanish round, he feared for a race like many international casualties.
“Everything has changed in this world because normally it ended with the men’s professional road test, which is now the first race that is organized ”. The World Cup ends on Sunday the 13th with the women’s race. The tests can be followed by Teledeporte and Eurosport. The arrival of this Sunday is scheduled for 17.20 hours. Sitting on the sofa it will not be necessary to put on the cyclists’ raincoat.
2023-08-04 15:10:56
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