The third Grand Tour, chronologically speaking
the Vuelta a España arrives for UAE Team Emirates with an eight full of quality and names that arouse expectation. After the second place of Tadej Pogačar in a memorable Tour, the team is rearming in a race in which it has always had good results, with podiums, the same of the Slovenian, three years ago, and stage victories.
The team led by Matxín anticipates the future.
However, for this Vuelta 2022, the team led by Matxín anticipates the future, putting in the starting lineup one of the names on which there are more hopes for the future of Spanish cycling: Juan AyusoAyuso, very young, he is not even twenty years old, he will turn twenty once the race is over, on September 16.
Ayuso, in his first major, enters the eight of UAE Team Emirates. with the aim of testing himself and seeing his limits in a race as tough and demanding as the Vuelta. In his favor, there will be no pressure, but also that he will compete and learn from teammates with a lot of experience and great goals in the competition.
Joao Almeida and Brandon McNulty, the leaders
On paper, the Portuguese Joao Almeidaone of the star signings for this season, should be the leader of the team. Two good results in two very tough Giros d'Italia are his guarantee on a course that is not bad for him, although he would have benefited from a few more time trials.
For his part, Brandon McNulty will join him in the theoretical captaincy of the team, with a lower profile, perhaps, but maximum aspirations. The American, who impressed in the Pyrenees during the Tour, is one of the riders with the greatest engine in the team and great things can always be expected from him.
Third in this hierarchy is Marc Soler, who in his first season with the team has developed good group workespecially for Pogačar in the Tour and played a key role in the Itzulia exceptional. Soler can be a great wildcard for the team.Soler, who returns to the race where he first won the grand tour two years ago, can be a great asset for the team.
The team also counts onJan Polanca rider with a very good track record in the grand tours, especially in the Giro, who will be there to push the UAE Team Emirates' speed in the Vuelta. Here Pascal Ackermann leads, with the morale of having won a sprint in the Tour of Poland.. Sebastián Molano and Ivo Oliveira are two of the German's two main reasons for the German to make it to the finish with a chance.
A course full of hardness and traps
We don't know how many sprints will have Pascal Ackermann opportunity to contest, as the Tour 2022 is faithful to the routes closer in time, with the continuous succession of high finishes and mountains. The German's chances lie especially in the Dutch stages at the beginning and some in the second half of the race.
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And the fact is that the Vuelta 2022 recovers the pending start in Utrechtin what we foresee will be a great cycling party. From Utrecht will start a race with more than 3200 kilometers, divided into two parts, separated by a time trial of 31 kilometers between Elche and Alicante.
In the first half, part of the northern part of the country will be coveredwith the first high finishes such as Pico Jano, Colláu Fancuaya and Les Praeres and some complicated finishes such as La Guardia and Bilbao. The second part of the Vuelta 2022 will focus on Andalucía and return to Madrid, passing through Extremadura.
There will be no shortage of the usual giants in the south, such as La Pandera, or Sierra Nevada, while it will climb higher than Peñas Blancas, in Estepona, and the Alto de Piornal in the province of Cáceres. The final will not miss the traditional appointment with the Sierra Madrileña, before the finish in the capital, next September 11 in the hope of seeing one of the eight UAE Team Emirates riders on the podium of the Vuelta 2022.
