Movistar Teama step forward
The year 2023 is proving to be a really productive one for the Movistar Teamwho this season is wearing the flashy blue kit of the Gobik. To the credit of one of the great teams of the international peloton is that great start to the season, with Fernando Gaviria winning from the Vuelta a San Juan itself, through the successes of Ruben Guerreiro and Matteo Jorgenson.
The latter is being one of the great sensations of international cycling, with a great regularity, getting into the top ten of Paris-Nice and being among the best in the races of Flanders, where Oier Lazkano's second position in A Traverse of Flanders stands out.
The women's block won the final stage of the Volta the Comunitat Valenciana with Floortje Mackij and stepped on the podiums in races such as the Flecha Valona. Annemiek Van Vleuten was close to the best in the Strade Bianche and now she is already thinking about the women's Vuelta, in a historic edition that has already begun.
For the girls, now comes a very full calendar in our country, because in addition to the women's Vuelta, they join the Navarra Classicthe ItzuliaDurango and Vuelta a Burgos, at the end of May, undoubtedly the most important month for women's cycling in Spain. For their part, the men are looking to the Giro d'Italia, which will be attended by Fernando Gaviria, with the intention of extending his palmares, and Einer Rubio as team leader.
Eolo Kometa and FDJ Suezbig goals in sight
For the international teams you saw Gobikthe calendar already announces major appointments. The Eolo Kometa returns to its fetish race, the Giro d'Italia, where Lorenzo Fortunato hopes to repeat his resounding triumph on the Zoncolan a couple of years ago. He will be accompanied by Vincenzo Albanese, who finished on the podium in the recent Giro di Sicilia, where Gobik where he dressed the different leaders.
For FDJ Suezone of the best women's teams in the world, the women's Vuelta is undoubtedly a major objective. Their season to date has yielded seven victories thanks in large part to Grace Brown, who had a brutal start to the campaign in Australia, winning the Australian time trial and the Tour Down Under. A few days later, Loes Adegeest won the Cadel Evans Ocean Race, a very important race on the island continent.
In Europe, the charismatic Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig stood on the podium of the Strade Bianche. For the Danish and Italian Marta Cavalli, the Tour de France Femmes in July is undoubtedly their big goal.