2023-11-13 08:39:59
The Volta must be the before and after of Adam Yates
How difficult it is to distinguish between Adam and Simon Yateswe saw both of them in the Volta, with very different results and different jerseys.
After a life together at Orica, then Mitchelton, now Bike Exchange, the fact that they now defend different colors at least helps us know where each one is going.
Aside from their physical resemblance, their pose on the bicycle, their way of attacking, setting the pace, looking to the sides and even celebrating are offered.
But they race almost the same and have a very similar track record that unbalances a Vuelta a España in favor of Simon.
The Yates brothers have been part of the big racing landscape for some time nowit caught our attention that both preferred the Australian team to the luxurious English block that at that time was walking among the clouds of Wiggins’ Tour and Froome’s first.
They did well, they distanced themselves and charted their own path, honing an acid instinct that has given them victory and the comment that sometimes accompanied it on Twitter: “Fucking Yates.”
Well, Adam Yates has taken the leap forward, the same one that his brother made when he was about to win the Giro and then made up for it in the Vuelta.
The Volta a Catalunya is not a small piece and it fits very well in Adam Yates’ interesting record of achievements.
It is his second lap in a World Tour, but not the first piece, since he already has a San Sebastián Classic, that of 2015, in which the motorcycles that knocked down Van Avermaet played a role.
The Adam Yates who has won the Volta is a cyclist who aims highstands out for its solidity and apparent impermeability in suffering.
He is a runner who moves confidently and is effective.
We already know that in the Volta he has not had the most complicated rivals.
He has done two races in Ineos and the worst was the second place in the UAE Tour, in which he had a head-to-head with Tadej Pogacar whose consequences we will be able to see in Itzulia.
At the Emirates we firmly believe that the twin put the Slovenian in trouble and that he had to do everything he could to fix the situation.
In the Volta, Adam Yates has conveyed a solvency beyond any doubtan individual solvency supported by the collective, since Ineos has achieved an entire podium in the World Tour, as in the good years of ONCE in several events.
Little or nothing to do with that cyclist who borrowed the yellow of the Tour from the hands of an unsuspecting Alaphilippe, counting the hours until he lost it, as he did.
We never saw him with options beyond that ephemeral leadership and now we wonder if the tables will change.
Adam Yates finished ninth last Tour, the same carrera of which he had been the best youngster four years before, finishing fourth overall.
Because Adam Yates is still old enough to deserveat 28 years old, has been ahead for so long that it seems like an eternity, but he, in this cycling, was also a precocious talent, so we will have to see if Ineos can achieve what the Bike Exchange declared itself incapable of achieving.
On paper it looks good, after the Volta, we believe that Adam Yates is the British’s most consistent asset, even above Egan Bernal.
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