Alberto Contador's advise to Juan Ayuso after Catalunya implosion: "This will be very good for him to analyze everything"

Alberto Contador, multiple grand tour winner and current Eurosport commentator, has given his opinion on Juan Ayuso's last day in the Volta Catalunya, in which he cracked under Primoz Roglic's attacks in Montjuic and ended up losing the overall lead.

The Spaniard thinks that this defeat will come in handy for the future: "This will be very good for him to analyze everything, to be even more aware. Because when you get all the successes, when you have won all the races in which he has participated, you can sometimes relax, but you are not the same as when you have lost something at the last minute. This prepares you both physically, in case you have made a mistake, and above all psychologically".

Contador stresses that what happened to him is not serious, that it happened in a terrain that he is very good at and that it will surely help him to learn:

"For me it was a crisis, something punctual, it was a climb that suited him perfectly, a classic climb, in which he handles perfectly. Another thing is that it would have been in a mountain pass, long, chained, he has failed. Then maybe we would say that we know if it costs him more such climbs, but these types of climbs fit him perfectly, he is a top favorite in races of this type, maybe he neglected the food or something or has a little illness, we do not know, it has not been normal. It could be that Roglic drops you, but for 5 other riders to do it is more rare."

Javier Ares, legendary Spanish radio commentator who for years has been the voice of Eurosport, also gave his opinion on the Valencian's failure: "Juan Ayuso has many more years ahead of him and higher ambitions. It's all very well to win a Volta a Catalunya but the important thing is to get to the Grand Tours and the big victories. In that sense precisely because without going any further the next Giro d'Italia. If he had won the Volta after the exhibitions he has done and so on ... until today Ayuso was considered favorite for the Giro, this could change his expectations".