Febrerillo loco and the big traffic jam

Today, three active laps: Rui Costa maintains the lead after the second stage of the Saudi Tour, Dylan Groenewegen wins the first sprint of the Tour of the Valencian Community and a rookie Alexys Brunel mocks the sprinters in Bessèges.

The cycling season starts with a racing menu that you can choke the teams of the second step, which this year integrate the UCI ProTeams category, formerly Continental Professional. February is crazy racing, especially overlapping stage tests, a squad of competitions that form an important traffic jam. And then, to go hungry in March.

The last blows of the Challenge Mallorca, with the first Spanish victory in charge of Marc Soler (and a double of the 'former Contador boy' Moschetti), accompanied the Tour of San Juan in Argentina where Remco Evenepoel He sang that his 20 years are nothing, like Carlos Gardel, compared to what awaits us when he turns 21, 22, 23 ...

A one day test, GP La Marseille, opened the traffic light in France, while in Australia the great calendar of January was stretched with the Cadel Evans Ocean Race and now with him Herald Sun Tour. The five days of the Bessèges star share calendar with the newest Saudi Tour that has recovered to Rui Costa on the path of triumphs and today has started the Tour of the Valencian Community.

The relay to these races is taken in Asia on Langkawi Tourin America the Colombia Tour Where could it be Egan Bernal (huge in the Nationals of the weekend, but not as much as the champion Sergio Higuita) and in Spain, the Tour of Murcia, the Classical of Almeria and the Tour of Andalusiawhere will we see the first Mikel Landa with the Bahrain-McLaren shirt. In the same dates of the Andalusian, the one of the Algarve Portuguese, with the first pedaling of Vincenzo Nibali.

The death of the Sultan has eliminated the Tour of Oman, but there is no shortage: the Tour de Provence and the Alpes-Maritimes they play in France and, by the end of the month, we will have the UAE Tour, the Tour of Rwanda and Haynan on an island in China, pending restrictions by the coronavirus.

All these stages races, to which the ProSeries category teams have access, are accompanied by others in a single day. But with the crazy feverish man who named the old saying, the party is over. From the rampant carnival to the Lent of fasting. In March, WorldTour teams and a few of the second category invited by the organizations will fight for Paris-Nice, the Tyrrhenian-Adriatic and the Volta to Catalonia. Great races For others, or the Tour of Taiwan or the Coppi-Bartali, which catches us more by hand.

So February is time to see how the three Spanish ProSeries work (Caja Rural-RGA, Burgos-BH and Euskadi-Orbea Foundation) and, above all, the two of the third division, Kometa-Xstra and Kern Pharma.

POLLEMIC FREE

Today, in the second stage of the Saudi Tour – where the Italian Niccolo Bonifazio he has anticipated the massive arrival – the Portuguese Rui Costa, leader, has hit him a push to South African Janse Van Renburg. Before sentencing that there was aggression, the images must be seen in detail. The boy from the TNT (new denomination of the Dimension Data), was moved by another runner to his left and Rui, seeing the danger, pulled out a defensive arm. Although other runners, such as Roman Kreuziger, expressed their opinion on social networks that the Portuguese should be sanctioned, no case. Even Van Rensburg spoke with Rui Costa and acknowledged that he had not acted badly.