Not only male cyclists, female cyclists will start even earlier with the first big multi-day race. The race in Spain for girls is starting, where some of the strongest cyclists in the world will be on the start list, and the only Slovenian woman at the start of the seven-day race has high expectations. Urška Žigart.
The stages will be anything but easy, most of them will be quite varied, and the last two will end on the final climb. The main highlight of the race is the legendary climb of Angliro (12.1 km, 10.3%), the most difficult Spanish climb, which has already written a lot of beautiful stories in cycling, and this year the girls are also going there for the first time. This could be suitable for light climbing specialists, including Urška Žigart, who, together with the South African Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio captain of the AG Insurance-Soudal team.
The first name at the start is the current winner of the race in France Pauline Ferrand-Prévotwho will also be assisted by the best cyclist in history in the Visme-Lease a Bike jersey Marianne Vos. Former Tour winner Katarzyna Niewiadoma with the strong Canyon Sram team has high expectations, but it is also worth mentioning Lotte Kopecky and Anna van der Breggen from SD Worx-Protime, but they probably won’t do well on Angliru.
The Dutch star and role model for many young cyclists, Demi Vollering, won the race twice, this year she will rather focus on the Italian race. PHOTO: Oscar Del Pozo/AFP
With the UAE Team ADQ team, they will bet all their hopes on the experienced Mavi Garcia and young Paulo Blasibut it is also worth mentioning Gaius Realini (Lidl Trek) and Cédrine Kerbaol (EF Education EasyPost). The two-time winner in a row will be missing Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez), which after a busy and extremely trophy-winning spring is now focusing on the Tour of Italy, which will start on May 30, while the main goal of the season remains the Tour of France.
“The race will be difficult – as usual there will be no flat ground, it will always go up or down. The last two days are very demanding and will greatly change the total. We are here with the desire for a good overall result for Urška Žigart, but we would still like to fight for a stage victory as well,” the sports director of the Belgian team motivated the Slovenian fans. Fien Delbaere. For our excellent cyclist, success would be the final result among the top ten, and Žigartova is certainly looking forward to the climb on Anglir.
