Every step a cyclist takes in the super-professionalized World Tour circuit is a perfectly measured and planned adventure, everything that happens responds to a purpose and every plan that is drawn up is subject to a thousand circumstances. All this, which is a beastly job, is therefore subject to the moment, a misstep, a fall, a mistake, anything that can ruin the goal.
Davide Formolo is more or less in the middle of his professional career. Within UAE Team Emirates he fulfills his role, knowing how unstable this sport is and how complicated it is to assert his personal ambitions in a team with such a marked hierarchy. Added to all this is a new circumstance: now, when he leaves home, he says goodbye to his young daughter, with all the changes that this entails.
With the help of Juan Antonio Flecha we immerse ourselves in the reality of the professional cyclist, subject to so many things that we are not aware of the merit that these people have.
Bonustrackwe talked to Joxean Fernández "Matxín", sport director of UAE Team Emirates, about the performance of UAE and Tadej Pogačar in this past Tour de France 2022.
