Vuelta a ESPA 2024: Eusebio OnzO: “Vuelta is where Enrique has always performed best”

EVeteran national leader on the run during this primary, Presence to the brand To analyze all the hot topics surrounding your team.

Question How do you see the team?

A: the work has been done so far, which was scheduled to arrive well. We started this tour to Spain well.

Q: but it became more of a turn again.

A: the arrival has arrived well. The Vuelta is the race in which he almost always gave the best performance, in addition, he arrives with confidence, but we are also aware that when reviewing the composition of the teams, except for the Big Three in this sport, everything else is here at the Vuelta and I think it bodes well for us, besides the rigidity of the road, a very spectacular roll and difficult to control for anyone. It’s going to be a very open competition

Q: Nero arrived much cooler and in the Giro he showed that he could fight for the stage. If you do not get the’ out of the ground ‘ bogacar is removed in return…

A: it is true that bad luck has followed him so far and unfortunately Burgos, which was the last opportunity to prepare, had a very serious opportunity that was limited these days , but above all with confidence in this first week he has already finished improving and saving the qualifiers that we will have for Extremadura and Andalucia already in the second part of the tour through the North, a terrain more adapted to

Q: it’s never easy to make an 8. For example, Garka Cortina was surprised that he did not go to anyone big. How are these decisions made as in the case of even?

A: well, it is true that the diversity of riders is used a little, and depending on who they are, you try to make the team more balanced and on the other hand there is a parallel calendar where we also consider it very important, because they are races that adapt better to their characteristics and we also need a little to get good results in parallel with the Vuelta a ESPA, which Ah we think he can do very well too.

Q: there are endless contracts of coagulants like formulo, Cavagna, who come from big teams. What do you think is going on? Why didn’t they finish adapting?

A: well, that’s right. Among other things, what we trusted was in their experience, maturity and maybe they didn’t reach the levels that we have seen in the last few years. Sometimes in adaptation, you also have no obvious reasons for not being at the levels. We have little hope that they will come back, if not this year, that they will improve the rest, if not the next year.

They haven’t reached the levels we’ve seen for them these years

Eusebio unzo on Formolo and Cavagna

Q: the deadline for the market has already been opened, many victims have probed, amitier, Lazcano… From the arrivals it looks only Olar, Higuita… What names can we talk about?

A: don’t think there are too many either. We have already signed several runners this year , not that there is much space either. Practically there are 24 or 25 slots, but when the time comes you will be notified and when they are consolidated above all also some losses and some contracts.

Q: any news about the sponsor?

A: not at the moment. We are still working on it, but we have no news.

Q: regarding the continuity of Valverde, who also has a contract, will he stay in the team? What is your roadmap for the end of the season?

A: we haven’t commented on that yet, but well, he will continue as always to make a little available to the team for many of the things he has to do during the season and we’ll see. I think you will see him in the race soon, for sure, when the time comes, because all these decisions will be made.

Q: the team has picked up the pulse of the points issue , and there are no more nerves

A: of course. We are not in the top ten for a certain calm, which is always out of the corner of your eye because you have to look a little at this blessed system that I don’t know if it has good things, but it produces a lot of headaches. I can guarantee you that will. I don’t know who will benefit from all this.

You always have to look a little at this happy system that I don’t know if it has good things, but it produces a lot of headaches

Unzo on the UCI registration system

Q: the team is starting to work with more and more young people and the formula is working.

A: it’s also part of what cycling is all about. It will be more and more difficult to be old after the age of 30, and everyone will be surrounded by children younger than this Prematurity at the general level of sports, the only thing we do is to have children who are already ready to guarantee results much more than before, that you need to be 23, 24, 25 years old to really discover a lot of them. Some reach such a high degree of development that by the age of 20 they are already ready to take on any challenge that is proposed to them.

It is impossible not to talk about Juan Ayuso, have there been conversations with him?

No, no. Honestly, no. He is a man with a contract, and logically, we know that as long as this is the case… Many of us would like to have it, without a doubt. But he is still in his team. No matter how much we talk about it, we won’t be able to either… It depends on him and his team.

But, at a certain point, if I’m looking for a way out. Does Movistar have the budget to sign it or can it even serve as a key to finding a sponsor?

If the time comes, we’ll see what can happen.

He has been in many laps and races, is this lap harder than the Giro and tour 2024?

Excess has its risks. As long as it serves to ensure the greatest possible spectacle, it is obviously important. It is very difficult to see large stages in 21 days. But, on the part of the organization, they put all the resources into making things happen every day. It is a fascinating tour with a solidity that will not be exaggerated if we respect the time. But , if not, I think we would be very hot. About 40 or so. In addition to road hardness, keeping these temperatures between four or six hours every day also has significant wear. She will help to make him a very uncontrollable and open lap. Although there are three great runners missing, the rest are here. The teams that came to La Vuelta are all very strong teams.

Have you talked about something to solve the heat problem? Is there any solution?

Teams are making a lot of efforts to keep people in the refrigerator. For example, in gitxu, 70% of the race ran above 40 with 44-degree peaks. Garcias did it due to the effort of the firefighters of Getxo and this allowed, as the racers convey, that the feeling of comfort that the hoses gave allowed them to perform the classic without encountering problems beyond what it means to run in those conditions.

Is there a fuss because of what he said in Colombia about reducing large companies to 15 days, what exactly do you want to point out?

I have always talked about the three weekend laps with a rest day thinking that all the great riders will be able to participate in the three Grand Tours. This will be a luxury and a wonderful sight. No milliseconds, in that sense. Then, considering that the history of this sport has been marked by a series of classics, some one-week races and, above all, Grand Tours, I think that for all the best it will happen that you have all the great riders in the Big Three. But this is complicated, apart from last year’s Cos. Not everyone can do that. But with 15 16 stages, it can be a test. They were talking about how to make the best people compete together and I was aiming for this formula as the future of cycling.

To close, what will be satisfied in Movistar?

At the moment, we are with the idea of being in the top five realizing that with the date of Enrique’s return, we see if we can be on the podium.