UAE Team EmiratesA very profitable February

Pro Teams March 2, 2022

Celebrando la victoria, el UAE Team Emirates 2022

The balance at March 1 for the UAE Team Emirates shows a results counter and victories counter at full capacityHe has nine victories so far this season, results that are accompanied by a constant presence in all the races in which the team competes, one of Matxin's maxims, with UAE color wherever one of his riders takes part.

Pogačar opens the WT with victory

On the grid of the top circuit, the World Tour, the UAE Tour marked the start of the best races on the calendar, an event of undeniable interest for the host team, which had a good part of its best riders at its disposal in seven days.

At the forefront Tadej Pogačar led the local bet.renewing last year's title, a very important victory, as it puts the world's best cyclist at the top of the small UAE Tour palmarès.

Pogačar executed the plan to perfection, being the best in the two high finishesHe was among the best in the time trial and saved the always conflictive flat stages, so exposed to wind and punctures, like the one that happened near the finish line and that he solved with the help of the team.

For the UAE Team Emirates, the race in his home country was also a good stage for him. to demonstrate how João Almeida has been incorporated into the gearing and the great value of a cyclist such as Rafał Majkaa rider who can be trusted with important tasks, as he holds out among the best when only his leader and some of his rivals are left.

Both the Portuguese and the Pole also finished in the top six.

The UAE Team Emirates, in his 2022 season

“Winning the UAE Tour is very important for our team.It's great to be able to celebrate the win with our sponsors. We have to thank all the people who have contributed to this great week," said the Slovenian at the top of Jebel Hafeet, where the race ended.

The great moment for Covi and McNulty

February's dense month of cycling competition in Spain was also colored by the UAE Team Emirates. If Brandon McNulty had already opened the account in the Trofeu Calvià in January, within the Challenge of Mallorcathe American was a long time ahead in the development of the the Vuelta a Murciaforcing his rivals to wear down. As a result of this strategy, McNulty was caught, saltThe result was his teammate Alessandro Covi, who took the solo victory in the streets of the port of Cartagena.

A few days later Alessandro Covi achieved a victory victory in The Route of the SunHe jumped first among the favorites, quite far from the finish line and withstood all the attempts to catch him that came from behind, attempts from riders like Iván Sosa and Miguel Ángel López.

Trentin in UAE this 2022, celebrating the victory.

On the same day that Matteo Trentin inaugurated his Belgian spring by taking seventh in the Het NieuwsbladBrandon McNulty signed another "solo", this time in the Het Nieuwsblad. Faun-Ardeche Classic, after an attack on the suggestively named climb, the Cote de Val d'Enfer -Port of the Valley of Hell-, and the help of Juan Ayuso, who the following day would be the protagonist of the Drôme Classicagainst the second in the Tour Jonas Vingegaard.

Fernando Gaviria, in all colors

The 28 days of February 2022 deserve a separate chapter for Fernando Gaviria.

Two years after becoming the first famous cyclist to contract Covid, he faced the month after overcoming the disease for the third time since then. Already in the Tour of Oman he was therefore able to taste victory and did so against an old acquaintance, Mark Cavendish, whom he had defeated years ago when he first made his name.

Gaviria regained his sensations in Oman, as he took a second win, however, in the Belgian opener, in the Het Nieuwsblada crash took him out of the race with a broken collarbone.