Counting this Saturday’s stage, there are 110 without wins in the Tour, Vuelta and Giro since Ion Izagirre won in 2020 at the Formigal station in Aragon.
Not as a gift to Miguel Indurain the day he turned 58, that of Las Cármenes. There is nothing to do because he was a distant July 21, 2018 when Omar Fraile raised his arms as the winner at the Mende aerodrome, the scene of the triumphs of the Spanish cyclists. Of six arrivals at this place in the history of the Tour, counting the one on Saturday, three of them had won Spanish riders. Apart from Friar, Marcos Serrano (2005) and Purito Rodriguez (2010).
This Saturday two Spanish runners slipped into the numerous escape allowed by the Jumbo; a Catalan (Marc Soler) and a Murcian (Luisle Sánchez). to usually do could not enter the good cut that occurred within the breakaway. louisle he did, but he was betrayed by the forces with which he fought for victory in the Alpine premiere on Tuesday, at another aerodrome, in Megève.
?️ “Thanks to the team, because with their help little by little we are finding sensations. We are going to spend tomorrow and, after the break, we will have three very, very hard days in the Pyrenees, in which anything can happen” – @EnricMasNicolau #PTO2022 pic.twitter.com/ZUbhK3twRn
– Movistar Team (@Movistar_Team) July 16, 2022
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And if you do accounts the situation is dramatic. Go 110 stages no wins, between Tour, Giro (the last winner was Pello Bilbao in 2019) and Vuelta (with the victory of Formigal that Ion Izagirre achieved in 2020). And nothing more to tell in this regard. You are close, you shoot at the Tour stick, podium positions are added that are worthless and Enrique More It is there, in the second group, the one that fights to be in the ‘top ten’ more than to occupy a place on the podium that seems clearer with each passing day, although the first and second places still have chapters to decide.
There were other times, in which the cycling gentleman who turned 58 this Saturday came to the Tour and won five timesin the wake of the triumph of Parakeet in 1988. Then came Oscar Pereiro and achieved a victory that took more than a year to become official. Showed up Alberto counter with the aim of collecting yellow jerseys and even Carlos Tailor got his Tour in 2008.