We leave the history of UAE Team Emirates in the Vuelta a España which ended with the young Juan Ayuso celebrating a historic podium in the first major in which he competed. A result as surprising, due to his age, as it was enlightening about his quality, signed in a magical evening for the team, which culminated in The Vuelta with the victory of Sebastián Molano.
Like an echo, on the other side of the pond, of that final success in the Spanish grand tour, came one of the most resounding victories of Tadej Pogačarnothing more and nothing less than in Montréalin one of the two Canadian events of the World Tour, in front of the very same Wout Van AertThe Slovenian has a rarely seen range of records on the bike.
The Italian sprint of Tadej
That was in Canada, because the end of the campaign focused on an Italian tour that left the best sensations for the young and smiling UAE Team Emirates rider. In the autumnal welcome classics in the north of the Italian boot Tadej Pogačar signed two wins and a podium in the Giro della Emilia.
The first success was achieved in one of the races in which Gobik Italian calendar, in the Giro della Emilia. Three Valleys of Varesewhile the second was a monument, a monument to the Giro of Lombardywon in a spectacular head-to-head with Enric Mas over the mountains in and out of the city of Como and its Lake Como.
It was known that both riders were the great contenders for the last big race of the year. On a hidden bed of dead leaves of early autumn, both riders proved to be the strongest on the ramps of San Fermo della Battaglia to arrive alone and in the sprint to resolve the victory. Earlier, the team had made the fat selection on the Madonna del Ghisallo and Como section, with Almeida and Hirschi as battering rams.
At only 24 years of age, the best cyclist in the world, it is not unreasonable to label him at this level, already has 46 victories, including two overall wins in the Tour de Francewhere he has nine stages, a third place in the Tour de France, a third place in the Vuelta a Españain which he accumulated three stages, three monuments (two Lombardies plus one Liège) and varied triumphs in all terrains, from the Strade Biancheto the aforementioned Grand Prix de Montréalthrough several editions of the UAE Tour y Tirreno-Adriatico.
This is a cyclist of legend.
Great collective level
It would not be, therefore, complete this picture if everything was entrusted to Tadej. The team maintained a great tone in the final sprint of the season with victories, but also places in the top ten in almost every race in which it competed.
The Swiss Marc Hirshi two victories in his favor, the first one on the Giro della Toscana and the other, at the very end of the campaign, in the Veneto Classica day of walls and sterrancy, which ended with his companion Davide Formoloon the podium. The end of Campa also smiled at the great Matteo Trentinon the doorstep of the podium of the Coppa Bernocchi and the best at the end of the Giro del Veneto.
Everything to complete a historic season of 48 wins that have left the team at the top, way up there among the best in the world.
