2023-07-07 23:14:25
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Updated Friday, July 7, 2023 – 23:14
The Andalusian, rookie on the Tour at 22, shines in the Pyrenees and looks at the podium in Paris despite his eventful 2023. Artetxe and Zandio, its directors, talk about his intelligence and praise his personality: He is super relaxed
Carlos Rodríguez, during one of the stages of the Basque Country. WORLD
On the already hot morning of Mont de Marsan, a few meters from the Plumaon bullring, an impressively lean figure emerges from the Ineos Grenadiers bus, his arms and knees red from recent scars. Hannah, there’s the sun. Give him the shadow! he shouts Xabier Artetxe to the press officer of the British team. All the attentions are few for carlos rodriguez (Almucar, 2001) the boy who puts on the Spanish accent on this Tour, already fifth overall after his stupendous brushstrokes in the Pyrenees.
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beyond the unreachable Vingegaard y Pogacar, there is another Tour of illustrious men looking for the crumbs of a hole next to them on the podium in Paris. A pretend photo from which he soon fell Enric Mas and the one Mikel Landa He doesn’t seem energetic enough to oppose. Spain is eager for those successes in the Grande Boucle that were customary not so long ago and he sees Carlitos with his graceful pedaling ascend Cauterets and he is as excited as he had been for a long time.
The Andalusian has a short speech and a determined character. He is 22 years old and is making his debut on a Tour, but it does not weigh too much on him to already be the leader of a squad with as much pedigree and economic power as Ineos, which from 2012 to 2019 always won in Paris. You have to be calm, we tend to look for the new Indurain, to the new Accountant, but Carlos is Carlos. He is super relaxed, it’s nice to see him, he tells EL MUNDO Xavier Zandiored San Fermín scarf around his neck, one of the sports directors of the team formerly called Sky, for which he ran for six seasons.
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This calm is corroborated by Artetxe, another of the bosses of the squad, who speaks of what most distinguishes Rodríguez, in addition to his physiological virtues: his personality. He is a reliable, safe, solid, consistent runner. He is a guy who likes to work and optimize everything he does to the maximum. He began to study for an engineering degree, but he has that engineer’s mentality, of having everything under control, planned. He wants to have a project, a plan, and everything outside of that breaks his schemes, says the Basque.
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Carlos, trained at the Contador Foundation, had to put aside his studies in Industrial Engineering, in which he boasts of outstanding achievements, and go live in Andorra. He jumped directly from youth to Ineos, where he has also marked his progression with note. The first year with us was one of adaptation, that of the Covid. But he already did nice things. The second demonstrated his regularity in the Tour del Porvenir, he was second behind Jorgenson [adems, fue campen de Espaa]. The third we prepared for the Vuelta and he did very well, despite the fall that could have sent him home. He fought until the end and showed how tough he is [acab sptimo]. This year we already wanted to try it on the Tour, continues Artetxe, who continues to praise the privileged mind of his pupil: he gets everything the first time. He is surrounded by super professional people, on the bus we have a Tour and Giro winner [Egan Bernal]to Castroviejoone of the best domestiques in the world, to Flowerwaxworld champion, to PidcockOlympic champion… He doesn’t ask and watches. He’s making a name for himself among them.
Rodríguez keeps repeating that he is here to learn, but how can we ignore his audacity when he started at the wheel of Vingegaard and Pogacar on the way to Laruns or his stupendous last kilometers in Cauterets (he set the third fastest time there, faster than the leader). In general, two minutes separate him from Jay Hindley, third. A fight for the podium in which he raises the stakes. Of course that is the goal. We are going to go day by day, knowing that it is difficult, that Hindley is a great rider who has finished first and second in the Giro. But Carlos is fine, admits Zandio, who will not hesitate to put all the Ineos machinery in favor of the Spanish runner.
And both Zandio and Artetxe, the senseis de la perla, remember that not everything was so nice, the difficult moments, well, despite the great current sensations, this 2023 has not been easy for a Carlitos to whom the incidents have affected him. they pursue even these days: on Wednesday he crashed and crossed the finish line after colliding with a fan. It has not been easy at all, because he has a way of being that as the schemes move, it is difficult for him, it becomes hard for him. He broke his clavicle at the Strade Bianche and when he started to resume training he was hit by a car. Later, he had knee problems. He has arrived little by little, but since he started at altitude in May, he has not had any step back, says his director.
When asked about his idols, Carlos talks about Contador and Froome, but he is surprised to also admire an Indurain whom he never got to see in action, since he had not been born. I’m finding out, she says. What does he look like? Difficult answer even for those around him. Perhaps I cannot break the race one day, but none fail either; He is a guy who watches the watts a lot and understands his body very well; He is a long-distance runner, he has very clear ideas. He is tough, brave. Zandio and Artetxe say all of this proudly. He has a big one on his legs, say others who also know him. An open secret, like his signing by Movistar for next year: Carlos Rodríguez will be the new leader of the telephone squad in 2024.
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