2023-05-01 14:54:53
It doesn’t matter if they are men or women because when they wear the yellow jersey and the black stripe on the chest, when the day, like this Monday, May 1st, indicates work on a ‘goat’ against the clock, the Jumbo seems to have wings , the ones drawn, in the men’s chapter, by Wout van Aert on his helmet, or the ones that seem to drive the riders of the Dutch team to win the inaugural team time trial of the first official women’s Tour of Spain, which began with the Torrevieja beach.
There is still a long, long way to go until the race on the slopes of the famous ends on Sunday Lakes of Covadongaso the team time trial only served to show tiny hints of what this Spanish round will be like, with seven stages, on a road almost in a straight line between the Alicante coast and the Picos de Europa.
What did make clear this opening day is the tremendous difference that exists between the World Tour teams and the continental Spanish teams that have attended the test as guests. A lot of distance from one another, even with material, seeing squads that did not have homogeneous bikes, which unfortunately seems to be an indication that some of these riders will suffer a lot to keep up with the peloton until the Lakes of Covadonga.
By leaps and bounds
Fortunately, women’s cycling is advancing by leaps and bounds, with a exaggerated growth and brave in recent years, with the birth of very important races, nothing more and nothing less than the Tour and the Vuelta, but the difference between rich teams and fighters, between salaries and simply passion for two wheels, is still abysmal.
This Monday has been seen, for example, in the tremendous differences that were marked among the teams that attend and dominate all the races in the world (classic and stage rounds) and those that have won the possibility of facing the Women’s Tour as a seven-day adventure with the prize of breathing the same air and stepping on the same road through which the great stars of this sport will pass: Demi VolleringAnnemiek van Vleuten, Lizzie Deignan, Marta Cavalli, Silvia Persian, Marianne Vos or the Spanish Mavi García and Ane Santistebanall of them present in the Spanish round.
The Jumbo dominated the ‘chrono’ by teams as it did last year in the premiere of the men’s Tour. Thus, the British Anna Henderson She was the first Jumbo runner to cross the finish line, as a good gregarious Marianne Vosand won the right to wear the red jersey of the leader on Tuesday in the second stage of the test, with a flat layout, which will lead the runners from the town of Orihuela to Pilar de la Horadadaalways on Alicante roads.
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