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Madrid (AFP) – The cycling season resumes after the coronavirus closed on Tuesday with a large number of sports weapons that took part in the opening phase of the Vuelta in Burgos.
The 2020 edition of the level race in Spain includes a strong platoon, with runners for a hectic series of prestigious events, the 3 Grand Tours take position temporarily due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
The UCI World Tour resumes on Saturday with the Strade Bianche.
Professional cycling stopped 4 months ago, with the last high-level race between Paris and Nice in March, in which the last level was cancelled.
In February, the tour to the United Arab Emirates ended early due to an outbreak of COVID-19, and Colombian Fernando Gaviria was one of the first athletes in the world to test positive for the virus.
Gaviria, the sprinter of the United Arab Emirates team, who showed that he had recovered on 26 March and returned to Colombia in April, will be in action in Spain this week.
“It’s time to pick up where we left off,” he said on his team’s website, saying he was happy to feel like it again on a motorcycle.
Gaviria’s teammate Fabio Aru said: “We are ahead of being able to score a race number on our back and return to the platoon.”
Ineos giro d’Italia champion Richard Carapaz and two-time Burgos protector champion Ivan Sosa will face the festival in Spain this week.
Gaviria will make an offering for the sprints, while veteran speed king Mark Cavendish is also back in the chair after illness.
In the first of the five stages around the northern region of Spain, the local hero Alejandro Valverde will be in the harvester until the last directly of a brief and abrupt ascent to the Mirador del Castillo, which dominates the city.
The race will end on Saturday, when the guy at the start of the season, Nairo Quintana, from Arkea, has been able to judge his fitness in two mountain stages.
Mads Pedersen will be seen without problems in his rainbow world champion shirt, while the appearance of Remco Evenepoel, 20, a former Belgian junior football international, is highly anticipated.
Mikel Landa, one of the almost men of cycling, is seeking victory for his new Team bahrain McLaren, led by Rod Ellingworth and subsidized by Cavendish.
The 35-year-old British sprinter has 30 victories at the Level of the Tour de France, but says he will do it to Burgos for Landa.
“Let’s go to Mikel, he’s in incredible form,” Cavendish said in a press release.
But director Gorazd Stangelj said the Manxman would also have his moment in the sun.
“We have our strategy of opening up a chance at the CG for Mikel and throwing victories for Mark,” he said.
Stages of the Vuelta a Burgos:
Stage 1, July 28: Burgos Cathedral – Mirador del Castillo de Burgos 157 km
Stage 2, July 29: Castrojeriz – Villadiego 168 km
Stage 3, July 30: Sargentes de Las Loras – Picón Blanco km
Stage 4, July 31: Gumiel de Izan – Roa de Duero, 163km
Stage 5, 1 August: Covarrubias – Lagunas de Neila 158km