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The Tour of Spain begins on Saturday in Barcelona. The 2023 Vuelta riders were shown on Wednesday. This edition promises to be luxurious with the best Grand Touring specialists in the world, with the exception of Tadej Pogacar. Belgian Remco Evenebuel, last year’s winner, joins the party after retiring from the Giro. Dane Jonas Vingegaard comes on to complete the Tour de France-Tour of Spain double. Slovenian Primoz Roglic seeks to achieve a quadruple in the Vuelta. Behind these top three favorites are former Tour de France winners (Geraint Thomas, Egan Bernal). And also the future champions who are already the Spaniard Juan Ayuso, the French Romain Gregoire and Lenny Martinez, in addition to the Belgian Sian Oigtebroux.
Now that the teams have confirmed their line-ups ahead of the first stage, fans can expect big showdowns between the world’s best riders, including the winners of the last four editions of the La Vuelta, Remco Evenibuil (2022) and Primoz Roglic (2019, 20 and 21, also 2023 Giro winner), as well as double Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard (2022, 2023).
The return of Remco Evenibuil
Remco Evenibuil Soudal Quick-Step will wear the Belgian champion’s jersey this time (and the rainbow in the only individual time trial) on the Spanish roads. “Spain is one of my favorite countries, I’ve always felt good there and I’ve had great success there and I hope this trend will continue in the coming weeks. If you look at the course and the starting list you can see it’s going to be a very tough race, but I had a good preparation and I can Relying on a strong team, so I have a lot of confidence and motivation before the many trials .. the upcoming challenges »explains the fourth-youngest rider to win the Grand Tour of Spain.
The 2023 race winner has finally decided to join the Vuelta after retiring from the Tour of Italy due to the coronavirus. The Belgian prodigy was given a warm welcome during the 2023 Vuelta presentation.
Vingegaard-Roglic duo in Jumbo Visma
Dane Vingegaard is joined by two of his predecessors in yellow, Geraint Thomas And Egan Bernalas well as by riders who already know the Vuelta platform, such as Enrique Maas (Second in 2018, 21 and 22) and Juan Ayuso (Third in 2022). Thus he would have the triple winner of the Vuelta, Primoz Roglic, next to him. We can also wonder how the coexistence of these two potential winners will go.
There are several world champions that are crowned in early August in Scotland: Remco Evenibuil (elite time trial) again; Lorenzo Milesi (U-23 time trial) but also a New Zealand mountain biker Sam GeeseShort course winner before making his Grand Tour debut. La Vuelta 23 riders have already racked up 42 La Vuelta stage wins, including 10 for Roglic.
Young people on the front lines
Of the 176 entrants, 29 still belong to the under-23 category, as the 2023 Vuelta 2023 bid reveals. Such is the case for the outgoing winner. remco Evenibuil, Which will celebrate its 24th anniversary next January. Lenny Martinez (Groupama-FDJ), at 19 years old, is the youngest rider to leave Barcelona, having already impressed at the Tour de Catalunya (12). French climber born in July 2003 (Louis Leon Sanchez He was already in training at Once-Eroske, a few months later Max Paul (DSM-Firmenich) and Cyan Outdebricks (Bora-Hansgrohe).
born in 2022, Juan Ayuso He has the best credentials, including a podium finish in the Vuelta last year. But Walloon Sean Oitbroeks He won the 2022 Tour de l’Avenir. Lorenzo Milesi (DSM-Firmenich) also comes off the impressive Mondial Espoirs (time winner, 5th in the road race). Roman Gregory All told, he’s already won 5 professional races including the 4 Days of Dunkirk last May.
Cofidis Team Of course it is also present in Catalonia. As in previous years, Issa hirada He will be the leader of the northern formation hoping to do so during the last Tour de France (two stage wins and top 10 overall). She can count on it Brian Coquard At the enemy ends.
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Team Cofidis in the 2023 Vuelta
François Bédard, 31, France
Andre Carvalho, 25, Portugal
Davide Cimolay, 34, Italy
Brian Coquard, 31, France
Jesus Herrada, 33, Spain
Jose Herrada, 37, Spain
Ruben Fernandez, 32, Spain
Remy Rochas, 27, France
Road Vuelta 2023
From August 26 to September 17, 2023, La Vuelta 23 will consist of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,153.8 kilometres.
- 4 normal stages
- 2 flat stages with top end
- 6 mountain stages
- 7 mountain stages
- One group time trial and one individual time trial
- 2 days off
In Melissi first jersey Roja
From Realms to La Vuelta, Lorenzo Milesi has an exceptional August. The young Italian, winner of the rainbow jersey in the under-23 individual time trial, is the number one leader for Team 78H Edition of the Tour of Spain after leading the DSM-Firmenich team to victory in the inaugural team time trial. The Germans started early, as a thunderstorm broke out in Barcelona, and no one could catch them at all. Movistars came very close to the feat but fell short by half a second. Soudal Quick-Step (Remco Evenepoel) finished 6 inches behind and Jumbo-Visma (Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard) lost 32 inches. Team Cofidis takes the honorable ninth place (with a time of 22 seconds).
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