MADRID, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish adapted track cycling team will try to shine in the World Championships that take place from this Thursday to Sunday at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome, near Paris, and where they will attend with six cyclists, led by Ricardo Ten and with the loss of Alfonso Cabello.
The appointment is held again after last year’s, which was to host Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), had to be canceled and will do so on the same stage where the Elite World Cup was held last week.
The national coach Félix García Casas summoned Ricardo Ten (C1), Maurice Eckhard (C2), Eduardo Santas (C3), Óscar Higuera (C4) and, the great novelty, the tandem made up of Héctor Catalá and Eloy to fight for the medals. Teruel.
However, according to the RFEC, “due to a viral process”, the main trick to win a gold, Alfonso Cabello from Cordoba, current Paralympic and world champion, will not be able to compete in the French velodrome.
In addition, the Valencian Ricardo Ten, another regular on the podiums, hopes to be at his best level after suffering a fall in the previous concentration held in Valencia and getting even for what happened in Tokyo 2020 where he could not get any individual medal.
García Casas has also lost another good asset to fight for metals, such as the tandem formed by Christian Venge and Noel Martín, due to physical problems. In this modality, however, you can see the debut of Héctor Catalá, silver in triathlon in the Japanese capital, and who will compete in the Pursuit and the Kilometer together with the experienced Eloy Teruel.
For their part, Ten, Eckhard, Santas and Higuera will compete in the Individual Pursuit, the CRI Kilometer and the Scratch, while Ten, Santas and Higuera will form the powerful trio for the Team Speed.
“It is important to see what we find in Paris, because after the Paralympic Games there will surely be big changes and we will have to see what level we find ourselves in. We once again have high-level runners, some of them already know what which is to achieve medals in a World Championship, and we hope to be protagonists again”.