Marino Lejarreta always traveled in the noble class of the GiroThe almost full of Miguel Indurain in the Giro d'ItaliaThe Giro did very well leaving HungaryThree things I'm missing in this VoltaThe precedent of leaving Caja Rural out of the VueltaTour 1985: The priority was always HinaultTour 1983: Angel Arroyo turned the tablesTo warm up the Tour, from Merckx to the French vacuumThirty years after the first Giro de Indurain…Lemond & Hampsten, American Confessions in ParisDavid de la Cruz: «I have grown in the change»Another Tour without Rohan DennisA lot of interest to see Bardet on the TourCarlos Rodríguez to Movistar?no PleaseNothing motivates Geraint like the TourMikel Nieve: "I have been a good gregarious"Inés Cantera, another pearl among the best in the worldAlejandro Valverde's sports career in the balance#PodcastJS A shot of life & cycling with Juan Carlos Unzué#PoscastJS Why is pro cycling paid for youth mileage?How to be informed and participate in race and product raffles, DO NOT MISS IT!Guillaume Martin is a 28-year-old French cyclist that we are seeing a lot these days for the breakaways of the Giro d'Italia.His track record is tiny, seven victories in second-order races that are overshadowed by a top ten in the Tour de France and another in the Vuelta a EspañaWe are seeing his strategy, hunting long-range escapes to take time that he can then manage on the days of long knives, when the favorites come into action.With this plan he chooses to win a stage, something that almost never happens to him, and at the same time he obtains that income that gives him a good position in the general classification.Possibly Guillaume Martin tomorrow will have problems staying ahead in the general standings of the # Giro2022, but let them take the dance away from him, his presence in this and other races is constant, he transmits quality and makes a name for himself.I like cyclists who don't run thinking about tomorrowBut what gives him all this, mainly, is a brutal and constant presence in the race, his name is pronounced almost every day, because he fails a few breakaways and in them he spares no relief or work for the collective good.All this is very good but for some people the result is everything, or in other words, everything that is not winning and finishing, does not count, nor is it contemplated.I've read very unedifying things about a guy who honors his profession, even jokes about his status as a philosopher.They are wrong in the full breadth of the word, they are wrong from bottom to top, from left to right, because they make fun of a cyclist who honors his job, who plays to improve, although it does not always work out well.And when this happens, he doesn't hide..."Une vraie déception, beaucoup de frustration"?️ https://t.co/xLPBvbNOv4#CofidisMyTeam pic.twitter.com/DDbGDGdsKS– Team Cofidis (@TeamCOFIDIS) May 24, 2022Présent dans l'échappée, notre Normand a démontré qu'il avait le mental pour rebondir, en toutes circonstances.Bilan et réactions de la journée ⤵️https://t.co/j2ivRoLYms#CofidisMyTeam pic.twitter.com/1ccd7HExQh– Team Cofidis (@TeamCOFIDIS) May 25, 2022In the peloton there are many kinds of cyclists, as many as there are runners, but if we want to simplify it, we will know which winners and stars can be counted on their hands, since it is very difficult to access that status.Guillaume is part of that large group that if he based his happiness on results, he would possibly hang up his bike, for obvious reasons.He works, gives presence to his paymaster and seeks to improve every day, he does it without messing with anyone, with the honesty of a guy who has sucked this sport from the base, takes root in the Intermarché, and knows that he does not have the gift or the ease of others.In this Giro, Guillaume Martin has played what he has done other times, but this time it is not being possible, he burst on the way to Aprica, and that he also caught the break, the same as Valverde.When you give what you have, when you don't put hot cloths on your "failure", with all the quotes in the world, you deserve all our respect, after all, you only honor the profession in the most beautiful sport in the world.A cyclist that we already talked about in the 2020 Vuelta….The first “campionissimo” was Constante GirardengoGiro 2022: Joao Almeida will no longer go back thereThirty years after the first Giro de Indurain…Indurain's first great exhibition was at the Giro, 30 years agoWhat does Nadal have to do with cycling?Your email address will not be published.Required fields are marked with *Save my name, email and website in this browser for the next time I comment.This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.Learn how your comment data is processed.We can say that we have known David de la Cruz for a long time, from early categories in cycling, and that he did not go through all of them because he started competing later.In this time, we have seen the enthusiastic cyclist with the debut and the runner who was cultivating results until what he is today, a cycling professional with all the words with whom he is happy to have a chat for a while.Along the way, David de la Cruz has shown that if he is not afraid of one thing, it is change. In just a few years he has competed in various structures with very different but complementary ways of seeing cycling.So much so that going out there has given him a baggage that is very much appreciated in Astana right now, because they have a cyclist who knows his servitude, goals and illusions.Thanks to the Limar helmet brand, we have spent half an hour with him, to see that in this cycling there are so many details that come into play that sometimes, when we race to crown an early champion, we are wrong from beginning to end.Tuvalum is the leading website in Europe for buying and selling second-hand bicycles certified and checked by mechanics.If you want to sell your bike, upload it to Tuvalum and in 48 hours they will appraise it and make you a direct purchase offer.They take care of all the paperwork, pick up the bike at your home and make the payment to your bank account.Without having to meet strangers.And if what you want is to buy a bicycle, in Tuvalum you have the largest catalog with the best guarantee, because all used bicycles are checked by a team of mechanics and are delivered with a 12-month guarantee.If you are thinking of buying or selling a bike, Tuvalum.com.Image: FB Astana Qazakstan TeamIf we talk about Rohan Dennis on the Tour we will have to go back a few years.His debut was not easy, he landed at the same very young age, with an ephemeral leader's jersey in Dauphiné that had fueled some hope of doing well.But the young Rohan could not be where he wanted and ended up abandoning that race, broken in a corner at the start, a journalist friend of this poorly ringed notebook told us about him at the time.That was eight years ago.In between, he had happy days like leaving Utrecht in 2015, when he was the first leader in a time trial in which he beat the likes of Tony Martin or Tom Dumoulin, who was also the host of the day.You will remember his strange exit from the race three years ago, when he owed it to Bahrain and he refused to race the team bike in that time trial that ended up in the hands of Julian Alaphilippe.Since then, Rohan Dennis has not returned to the Tour, and since then there have been many times that he has made us talk.The Australian is, directly, a corridor scandal, a privileged engine.When he appears at the head of any pack, the trickle of cyclists from behind is brutal, one by one.Rohan Dennis has shown a power to align the group that few treasure, that's why we expected to see him in this Tour, especially when in races like Paris-Nice he was already seen ahead and well aligned with Roglic and Van Aert.I read that he has physical problems after Dauphiné, others point directly to his troubled mentality.Be that as it may, Jumbo has dispensed with it for the Tour.Nothing remains of the cyclist who one day said that he would like to follow in the footsteps of Bradley Wiggins and claim victory in a Grand Tour.He tried, I think, without conviction and the result we saw everything.He has given up on such an endeavor, while he has earned incalculable value as a luxury trotter.There Dennis has found his vocation outside of the time trials in which he continues to shine as always.His absence on the Tour really catches my attention, since we are dealing with a perfect runner for control and tempo tasks that are so much in style on the Tours of modern times.This one is capable of gobbling up two ports, just by keeping the pace high, enough so that no one leaves the fold, as Landa or Kiryenka did in the leaden years of Team Sky.If his absence serves to free up the race a bit, give room for emotion and script twists, he will be worth it.On paper, we can only regret that such a talent does not enter our screen this summer.You already know that with Romain Bardet objectivity is not the norm in the house and this time, in the heat of the Tour, it will not be an exception either.A few days before the Tour, we read that Bardet will be in the game.A few years ago the Frenchman has not been a contender for the throne that one day he argued with Chris Froome himself.In fact, I believe that he was never in a position to win the Tour, no matter how eager he was in «la France» he had to see him succeed Hinault.In 2016, he assaulted second place in the final stretch with an attack in the rain that was one of the best of that edition.The following year, he had Froome who has always shot, he enjoyed a great team, but he never bothered the Englishman, to the point that Landa almost took the podium from him.Those two options that Bardet had to go up to the Parisian drawer are quickly summarized because since then he has never been in it again.You can imagine the pressure that Bardet had to manage on honeymoon days.France had been looking for a successor to the badger for more than thirty years, and great hopes were placed on Bardet and Pinot to return the Tour to its host.Now that we are on the way to the 40th anniversary of the 1985 Tour, Bardet returns to France with renewed ideas.He realized long ago that the Tour did not fit his mold, but he discovered that there was more ground to shine.He bet on the Giro, something that has not gone well for him: in 2020 he wanted to run it but the pandemic removed the calendar, last year he was close to winning a stage, but we never saw him for the general and this time, he left the race when he was among those who would end up on the podium, he did so vomiting.Then there are the classics, a little publicized option for Bardet who has been on the podium in Liege and Strade and even a silver medal in a world championship, which Valverde won.As you can see, records are not lacking and this rider who one day opted to win it, returns to the Tour with the idea, surely, of polishing the slate of his team, a DSM that earns little, but when he does, he succeeds based on to good collective work and a brilliant strategy.Bardet on the Tour no longer counts as a potential winner - we would like to have seen where he would have arrived two years ago - but that does not make him less attractive to see how he knows how to reformulate himself and fight for other options that also embellish a sporting career.After him and Pinot, I don't see anyone in France with the makings of winning the Tour immediately, but this is not going to take away one iota of desire from good old Romain, the same as in 2015, after getting out of the fight for the podium, marveled at the discovery of the Lacets de Montvernier and gave us a descent to frame.Because this skinny, combed-back guy always comes back, he's a treasure, one of those top-class cyclists that we miss on this side of the Pyrenees, a guy who also stars on the front pages because at the chance of an embankment he is able to forget about the race and help your partner get back on the road.We are interested in seeing what the Tour holds for him…Well, well, well, what one finds out after a few days disconnected, well, didn't they tell me yesterday on the Biciescapa podcast that Carlos Rodríguez sounds for Movistar?Although the name has been sounding for a long time, like that of any Spanish cyclist who stands out and is not in the fold, I do not see anything simple.In the cyclist environment, they say that there is some possibility, if not this year, then next.Trusting him in Movistar to 2024 seems to me a lot to trust him, as things stand.In any case, the situation is not only that Movistar signs Carlos Rodríguez, it is that he has to make a brutal and total raid on the squad.If even Max Kanter in Occitania was surprised by Roger Adrià, one a World Tour cyclist whose benefits have been selling us all year and the second, a Kern Pharma runner, who right now arouses more sympathy and curiosity than the telephone ones.A few days ago I did the exercise of seeing who could take over from Valverde in Movistar and you can imagine the answer: between several runners and even so, with no guarantee of success.It is the harsh reality of a squad that has been shrinking and that cannot excite with the signing of a name that generates expectation, because what is underneath we are seeing.I don't know if Carlos Rodríguez will end up at Movistar, what is certain is that now his negotiating position at "chez Unzue" is not that of the kid who packed his bags and went to Ineos.I just don't see a better place for a cyclist like him, with obvious physical progress ahead of him, but above all with concerns that make him happy in an international structure.Ineos will certainly not be the perfect house that they sell us, but it is a priceless university for Carlos, as it was for Enric Mas the Quick Step or for Ivan García Cortina, the Bahrain, as much as Lastras may say otherwise.There is always time to come to Movistar, not so much to grow up in international structures and perfectly accommodated in top cycling, that is why everything that a charming guy like Carlos from Ineos scratches will always be little.Then there is the team mentality, what do we say?Knowing what we saw in the documentary and remembering the Strade, for example, we can imagine Txente discouraging the hunt for Carlos Rodríguez through Pogacar on the way to Siena.What where are you going?what if the wind blows...He didn't make it, but there he was, in a world race, showing off and exhibiting a cycling that, although it doesn't give you immediate results, improves you, for sure.I read that Aranburu is not having a bad campaign, but we have not seen him like when Astana, nor is he numerically equal to last year.The same can be said of Iván Garía Cortina, a cyclist who treats us like a motherfucker in the Roubaix previews but who, unfortunately, doesn't give more of himself.Of Enric Mas, the places in the big ones do guarantee him, but little or nothing remains of that Quick Step cyclist who did good times and attacked in Arrate.These are three examples that shed light on the step backwards experienced by everyone who signs for Movistar, a reality that we would never want to see with Carlos.Profile of @JoanSeguidor's NotebookThe other day remembering with @ gzlz11 the Tour 92 I realized that there is a certain cycling that is very complicated that one day we will see it again.Trisca daily cycling, brave, one by one... I'm not saying that I don't like the one from now, but the one from back then, ufff.https://joanseguidor.com/tour-1992-ciclismo/When so many people are happy about the titles of Carlos Rodríguez and Raúl García Pierna, it is no coincidence.It is the fruit of work grounded in humility, quality and motor skills in equal parts.They already fly alone and very high.... #CEMallorca22Ineos retains the rojigualda #CEMallorca22Why do I like Romain Bardet?Brave cyclist Respectful and sporty type Cultivated that is worth listening to He no longer chooses to win a Tour, but he always shines, looks for his gap and something makes us want to see him at # TDF2022 https://joanseguidor.com/romain- bardet-tou-r2022/Tour 1992, that will not come backThe Stelvio, a port from the imperial eraMarie Blanque, the white lady of the QHMerano-Apirca: The best stage of our livesThe chimney sweep who won the first TourIt is convenient to differentiate between La Sarenne and Alpe d´HuezThe last kilometer of PortaletBearded Vulture's fatherCopyright © 2017 Page owned by JoanSeguidor.www.joanseguidor.com and www.elvelodromo.com are owned by Joanseguidor.Agency specialized in sports content, road cycling, BTT Mountain Bike, Gravel or cyclocross and the world related to bicycles.