¡Hola Torito!👋🇲🇽 #WeAreUAE #Itzulia2024
"Everything will be blown up!" - Juan Ayuso expects 'tough and explosive' final stage at Itzulia Basque Country
CyclingFriday, 05 April 2024 at 20:30
With just one stage to go at the 2024 Itzulia Basque Country, it's still all to play for in the general classification. Very much still in the mix, Juan Ayuso will start the final stage 3rd in the GC, 4 seconds down on Mattias Skjelmose.
"A tough and explosive stage awaits us," the 21-year-old leader of UAE Team Emirates previews in his post-stage 5 interview with Eurosport. "Everything will be blown up, there is no other option for each one than to play their respective tricks."
With the likes of Primoz Roglic, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel crashing out in frightening scenes on Thursday, Ayuso is one of the more proven climbing talents left in the race. The Spaniard isn't UAE Team Emirates' only card to play either, with the likes of Isaac del Toro and Brandon McNulty both still lurking dangerously.
"We planned to wear down the leader and make him work, which we achieved, since Skjelmose had to start chasing," Ayuso reflects on stage 5. "We have been going at full speed all day, we have not stopped at any time, and that will be noticed."
claps 2visitors 428
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- MVDP dominates this sport even more than Pogaçar dominates road racing. Also he can beat Tadej on the road quite regularly, the opposite is unlikely.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- If you listen to team radios you'll hear each DS telling their riders to ride faster, fight their way to the front, and all occupy the same 8 places.Sweep22-12-2024
- You're talking about a sport where equipment and clothing is measured in grams.Sweep22-12-2024
- “During a TT, I am basically blind”. That was his quote after crashing into the barriers in a TT. The problem isn’t the UCI, radios or air bags. The problem is the riders and their teams.JoeyB22-12-2024
- I think you overestimate scientific knowledge and for sure the spreading of it. There are huge numbers of people in similar situations, if there were an easy solution somebody would be making big money out of it. Nerve pain can have many complex origins or be due to complex combinations of reasons. Even if you discover a reason there is not always a solution. Migraines haven’t been solved either. I have had lower back/hip nerve pains on and off for over 30 years, no kind of doctor has ever found a way to reduce, prevent or solve the problem. It may just be that some people are born with nerves that are too short or get twisted out of position during certain movements.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- Amazing ride by her and very promising for her future. On a side note, it’s a bit worrying all these wins riders have after emotional moments in their lives, someone will come up with emotional doping at some point. Maybe give them fake news just before a big race to get hormones pumping.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- I doubt he will have the energy to do that if he continues to do leadout for Phillipsenabstractengineer22-12-2024
- I know several people who’ve tried contacting sport airbag manufacturers and none of them ever got a reply. Might be hard to organise anything with such attitudes.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- It's the BBC. Who cares outside of little Britain.leodis22-12-2024
- Crawl back under your stone.leodis22-12-2024