The Dutchwoman, winner of the Challenge by La Vuelta in 2021 and 2022, is confident of revalidating the title with a new format
MADRID, 27 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Movistar Team will attend La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es, which will take place from May 1 to 7 between Torrevieja and Lagos de Covadonga, with a luxury squad led by the Dutch Annemiek van Vleuten, winner of the Spanish round, in her previous format, in 2021 and 2022.
“The telephone squad, with Annemiek van Vleuten as the winner of the Challenge by La Vuelta in 2021 and 2022, will pursue its best version in the seven days of the great national round,” said the Spanish team, the only one in the top category of women’s cycling. .
The Women’s Tour reinvents itself, goes from five to seven stages and becomes a ‘Great’. And the Movistar Team announced this Thursday a team, made up of seven names, ready to be the winner again.
Under the technical direction of Jorge Sanz and Jürgen Roelandts and with Sebastián Unzué as manager, the Movistar Team will start from Torrevieja with world champion Annemiek van Vleuten, winner of the last two editions of the Challenge by La Vuelta (2021, 2022).
At his side, the German champion Liane Lippert, the Danish Emma Norsgaard -back after her injury at the Strade Bianche–, the Álava Lourdes Oyarbide; the Dutch Floortje Mackaij, the French Aude Biannic and the Colombian Paula Patiño.
La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es, which will take place from May 1 to 7 between Torrevieja and Lagos de Covadonga, will be the one-week Spanish round -male and female- with the largest financial endowment in Spain, with 130,000 euros in prizes.
It proves that the Spanish team Zaaf will be lost due to financial problems. The general director of Unipublic, Javier Guillén, reported that the team informed the organization “that it will not take part” in the test. “The statement we have is that he will not take part. We do not know what the future of the team will be from now on, nor do we prejudge it,” he said.
The route includes the opening team time trial (14.5 km) and three days with mountains: Navafría (1st) and the unprecedented Peñas Llanas (2nd), Fuente las Varas (2nd) and Campo Layal (2nd) and the decisive Covadonga lakes preceded by Collado Moandi (2nd).