The organization of the issue 39 of the Cycling Tour of Ecuador made its route official for this 2022, a layout of eight stageswith exit in Quevedo and closing in Quito, between November 12 and 19.
“The Exception status and the curfew that governs in the province of Guayas forced us to modify stage 1″, indicated the organization of the competition, a change that modifies the routebut which increments the initial path to set to 1,236 kilometers the distance that the peloton will travel.
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“We had planned, and our entire structure was set up with the start in Samborondón (Guayas), but That stage should have been modified and now we will attend the game in San Carlos (Quevedo), we will go for Vinces and we will arrive at El Empalme, which was the initial destination on the first day”, said Santiago Rosero, president of the Ecuadorian Cycling Federation.
with this change 58 kilometers are added to the route planned at the beginning. The new layout for the stage that will open the competition will be 216.46 kilometersa change that also modifies the planning of the teams and the caravan of the test.
“With the exit in Samborondón It was planned for the international teams to arrive in Guayaquil, but now with the change we must make the transfer to Quevedo for Friday, when the technical conference and the official presentation of the squads will take place,” Rosero said.
From the second stage the route remains according to the initial planning, with sections that will join Empale and Puerto Quito on the second day, in the third to Calacalí, and the path between Otavalo and San Gabriel to complete the first four stages.
The fifth fraction joins Tufiño and Tulcán in a circuit planned by the Olympic champion Richard Carapaz, for the sixth stage to have the route between San Gabriel and Cayambewhere does the penultimate day with destination arrival in Quitoto Middle of the World City, which will host the final stage, on Saturday, November 19.
In the presentation of the test carried out in Quito, the presence of 19 teams was also confirmedof which 3 are continental, 4 international and 11 national, to form a peloton of 127 cyclists, that could be modified “until the technical conference, on Friday, November 11.” (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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