Although the month of March signed by Tadej Pogačar will figure in the annals of great cycling.the fact is that the UAE Team Emirates managed to complete a start of spring that responded to the demand and nonconformism that marks this team, starting from the basis of always being protagonists wherever there is one of their jerseys competing.
And they succeeded, because in the monthly balance is worth noting up to twelve wins.The monthly balance of the year so far, with the month of April already begun, brings the total number of wins to 22. In this statistic, it should be noted that Tadej Pogačar contributed four hits, the Strade Bianche plus the overall and two stages of Tirreno Adriatico.
The flake in the Trofeo Laigueglia
The start of the month could not have been more promising with a spectacular three stage victory in one of the most important semi-classics of the first Italian calendar. The UAE Team Emirates managed to occupy all three places on the podium of the Trofeo Laigueglia with the victory of Jan Polanc and the company of Juan Ayuso and Alessandro Covi on the podium.
The pieces of the team played perfectly every moment of the race, achieving a 1-2-3 very difficult to achieve in any race, as a symptom of a perfect teamwork.
For that race, it was already beginning to be ahead and deciding one of the names of the month, that of young Juan Ayusowho already in the Volta a Catalunya stood out for his omnipresence in almost all the important stages. The Spanish cyclist was one of the stiletto in the third-oldest tour of the calendar, together with the Portuguese Joao Almeidawho was the best at the finish in Boi Taüll, the queen stage. of the Volta.
Almeida's great performance on the Pyrenean summit earned him a place on the final podium, the third, while Juan Ayuso placed fifth in the final overall standingsa very remarkable result for a rider who will not turn twenty until September. We cannot forget that we are talking about the World Tour.
March 10, 2022
Before the Volta, the team had experienced a very special day, that of March 10. On that day, the team had two victories at almost the same time in the two races that were being contested, the Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico..
While in the last of the two, Tadej Pogačar took the partial victory and the lead, which he would not relinquish until the end, in the French race Brandon McNulty signed a "solo" on the way to Nice to get his second win of the season, after the one he achieved very early on in Mallorca.
It is worth remembering that previously, the Emirati Yousif Mirza had won the national time trial title, over a not inconsiderable distance of more than 30 kilometers.
The balance of the month is summarized in two more victories of very interesting cyclists for the structure. At the Bredene Koksdijde Classic, Pascal Ackermann opened his locker in the UAE Team Emirates in a very high level sprint and in the Per Sempre Alfredo, Marc Hirschi left drops of his enormous class waiting to recover that level that we all fell in love with a couple of years ago.
Among the team's classics, Diego Ulissi, winner in a small group sprint at the Gran Premio Industria, almost never misses the appointment. Diego continues to be one of the great assets of the UAE Team Emirates.
Upcoming events not to be missed:
- April 13: Flecha Brabanzona with Matteo Trentin
- April 17: Paris-Roubaix with Matteo Trentin
- April 20: Flecha Wallonne with Marc Hirschi and Tadej Pogačar
- April 24: Liège-Bastogne-Liège with Tadej Pogačar defending his bib number one
- April 26 to May 1: Tour de Romandie with Juan Ayuso and Brandon McNulty.
