MADRID, 19 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general director of Unipublic, Javier Guillén, admitted this Tuesday that it was “a challenge and a motivation” for them to try to improve the 2023 route of the Vuelta a España, and that for this reason they opted “for a lot of intensity” in order to meet the demands that “needs the new generation of runners and their talent” for a race that “looks more to the sky than to the ground.”
“We are aware that 2023 was a very good route and that was a challenge and a motivation. I think that this year what we had in mind is a lot of intensity because I think that today we are running with a lot of emotion and we have a generation new type of runners where nothing is given and then let's say that their talent needs a demanding course,” said Guillén during the presentation of the Spanish 'great' route.
The manager considers that they have “found” a route for a career that “has many keys.” “To start the start from Portugal, which I think is important, and this is a race that looks to the sky more than to the ground and that is why we always look, above all, for mountain resources,” he warned, also waiting for “how those days play out.” of rest for stages, one mid-mountain and another high mountain, such as Lagos de Covadonga”.
Guillén, who also did not hide that it is a Vuelta that “winks at the commercial” with the stage that starts from the Carrefour in Jerez de la Frontera and the last one that celebrates “the centenary of Telefónica”, admitted that “it is very difficult” Do not design a route without this type of large transfers that the peloton will have to face.
“The territory of Spain, like that of France and Italy, is very large. In fact, we are not able to cover the entire territory in a single edition and here there is something that is obvious, and that is that you want to be as present as possible. possible in all places, and the problem is that the mountains are far from the urban centers,” he noted.
Therefore, they must “compensate” when doing “a demanding route so that there is excitement.” “All types of tours can be done. We can do one without transfers, but possibly it would invite us to a Vuelta that is not as exciting and as demanding as the one we are capable of proposing,” he stated.
Finally, he pointed out that the race “has a hallmark of innovation and originality” and that is why they could try to try dirt sections. “But others are already doing it. When we find something that we really understand is worthwhile, then we will do it, but today La Vuelta is tough enough and original enough not to have this resource. When we see that we need it, we will do it” , he sentenced.