MADRID 8 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish former former Alberto Accountant, winner of seven ‘big’, celebrates that you can see “a great show” Gracia A Valientes “and with a lot of charisma”, while, as founder of the polti-visitmalta, category team Continental, admits that it is easier to detect young talent because it has been achieved that in their sport “the level” through physical tests can be seen objectively.
In an event organized in Fitur by ‘VisiMalta’, one of the official sponsors of the Accountant Foundation, the double winner of the Tour of France said that “now has less merit to guess than a figure is coming because with the numbers of the tests” You can know the level.
“As for example, you know that if in swimming a 50 -meter pool you are able to swim in x second Day, but you can know the level each runner has, “he said in an interview with Europa Press.
In this sense, he warned that “now the runners are signed practically the youth category.” “You are going to the concentration of November and December, they make you a test, the coach, the directors and the manager see the numbers and say: ‘It is in numbers to dispute the best races in the world.’ Now it has been achieved that cycling You can objectively look at the level each corridor has, “said the exciclist.
The one in Pinto stressed that when he began in the amateur category, the goal was to go “knowing the careers because but the jump to professional was very large”, something that has changed in recent years. “Today what you are looking for are runners who have talent for this sport,” he said.
Precisely, his team is responsible for collecting that young talent to form it “thinking about the Giro de Italia”, which is the main objective of the squad for this season. “We hope to be one more year and it is a bit that we have done other years, fighting in stages. We achieved two incredible stages in the Zoncolan and the Imperatory field. We have Piganzoli, which is improving a lot. The numbers in training are very Good, we believe that it will make an important leap this year and we think it can make a great turn of Italy, “he said.
“It is very nice to put television and watch cycling”
Accountant acknowledged that the cyclist who is being seen now is “very nice because they see brave people, runners with a lot . “I think that at the show level we have a great show, although Pogacar is dominating a lot. But now with these young runners who have come out, she is glad; Remco (Evenepoel) also with the bravery it has. It is very nice to put the television and watch Cycling, “he said.
“Each corridor is in a different way and I think that perhaps sometimes where a little more is ever like a corridor like Tadej Pogacar start 100 kilometers in the World Cup, with the risk you have to assume, being all the time in a minute, a minute and a half, you have to value it, “he said.
This 2025 season will be the eighth campaign without the double winner of the Italian and Tour of France and triple winner of the Vuelta. A withdrawal that reached 34 years, even if he does not regret: “Could he have continued? Yes, because in fact, both in five minutes and ten efforts, the numbers that I took in the Tour of Spain (from 2017) were The best of all my sports career, “he said.
Although he confirms that “it was no matter of continuing” because after 15 years at the highest level and being “one hundred percent with cycling” he noticed wear. In addition, I wanted to leave a good memory in the viewers retina. “I always dreamed of withdrawing well and young. In fact I thought about retiring at 32. Now people are extending their professional careers more, but no, I do not regret at all. I am super happy with the decision I made and I think it was very right, “he said.
His 2017 victory in L’Angliru, “a fourth dream”
When he remembered his last stage in the Tour 2017 he felt emotion again: “He has put gallina’s skin.” He remembers his withdrawal as “a reality reality” because he did not imagine awakening so much enthusiasm among fans. “I had three dreams: one was to be professional, another was to run the Tour de France and another was to win it. But when I retired and got the victory in L’Angliru the day before, I said: ‘This is the fourth dream that I did not know I had ‘, “he said.
“On top All Spain.
Finally, El Pinteño ordered five outstanding stages of his sports career proposals of the most special and significant to that of less. For the Madrid, his last victory in L’Angliru “was the most incredible”, putting as a second the stage of the return of 2012 that ended at Fuente Dé where he got the leadership that days later certified in Madrid.
On the other hand, from the ninth stage of his last Tour de France, he does not keep “good memories” and placed the famous stage with a rise to the Alpe d’Huez in the Tour of 2011 as the third being the fourth being the day of the Giro of Italy where ” It flew ‘in the mortirolo.