Diego Ulissi leads multi-faceted UAE Team Emirates at the Tour Down Under with Del Toro and Morgado given early tests
CyclingTuesday, 09 January 2024 at 12:30
UAE Team Emirates have become the latest team to reveal their seven-man lineup for the upcoming Tour Down Under, kicking off the 2024 road racing campaign.
In a multi-faceted team that can cast an eye towards both overall victory and stage wins, it's likely to be the experienced Italian, Diego Ulissi who leads the team's charge, supported by the likes of Alessandro Covi and the Kiwi duo of Michael Vink and Finn Fisher-Black.
For the sprints, Alvaro Hodeg will be the go-to man for the team but it's their remaining two riders who perhaps incite the most excitement within the team. The highly-rated and vastly talented young duo of Isaac del Toro and Antonio Morgado make their debut.
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UAE Team Emirates for the Tour Down Under:
Alessandro Covi, Isaac del Toro, Finn Fisher-Black, Alvaro Hodeg, Antonio Morgado, Diego Ulissi and Michael Vink.
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- Let's all just calm down until after the TT tomorrow... If one of them have a bad day, then that's the leadership question solved... If not, then Ayuso will have to explain why IDT needs to work for him when he would not do the same for the world champ last year...DoctorNurse7119-05-2025
- I assume Del Toro will be in pink for a while. Maybe even good for Ayuso that the pressure is off him now for a while. I still think Ayuso is team leader because I do not expect Del Toro to be a serious contender in the high mountainbike. Fun development 😁 I loved the stage also.
DareDevil19-05-2025 - Del Toro got Pink, whats the problem, Ayuso was riding retrograde... #simpleas 👍
leedorney19-05-2025 - I wondered how Rwanda had been chosen as WC venue.. just curious I guess. You've filled-in the lack of info very well.. thanks.FredMan19-05-2025
- On what basis are you marketing them as a strong team? Budget, past results, organisation, complementary roles?Mistermaumau19-05-2025
- Beating a man when he’s down? That’s not exactly a sign of strength.Mistermaumau19-05-2025
- May be, everything is possible in a 3weeker. His high-paced ride with WVA (plus the upcoming TT) may hit him yet whikst Ayuso enjoyed the luxury of a protected group to « recover » 2 days. As used to happen in the past, maybe we’ll see a fresh guy eating 2-3 minutes into a tired one on a single climb again? Don’t know, don’t care but I’ll keep an open mind for the moment. Oh, and any of these guys can also have a Roglič day, or worse, a Jay day and by the end no-one will remember the final result could have or was distorted by such incidents.Mistermaumau19-05-2025
- Well said! I think many don’t realise how fast the stage was, if you look at the names who got ejected from the peleton most of the top 20 showed an amazing resilience, Ayuso had it easy, maybe because he chose to play it smart, maybe because he was too close to the limit, both are possible. Cycling is a funny sport, the only one where you can actually improve as the race goes along, well, in GTs at least. Weird how you can suddenly have a good day or week after suffering early on, but then we all know that from training too.Mistermaumau19-05-2025
- As I said, the cat’s away. UAE are not a team, they’re a collective of well paid talent that are hard to beat, the Real Madrid of cycling, but, with that come unmanageable egos and unlike in football (except Ronaldo) individual gials still top team performance so what do you expect. He’s just advancing his transfer pawns because the day will come when everyone at UAE realises the place isn’t big enough for all of them.Mistermaumau19-05-2025
- Kudos to del Toro. He rode away from everyone save an inspired Van Aert. All those strong riders behind putting time into Roglic, but he kept putting time into them. Deserving of the maglia rosa.velodan19-05-2025