The squad disputes the Spanish amateur cycling tournaments, in 2016 it was the gateway to Europe for Richard Carapaz.
The team Lizarte announced this Friday the incorporation of Ecuadorian Nixon Rosero for the 2022 workforce, Sucumbíos is the first signing of the Spanish for the amateur season.
Through a statement, Lizarte announced Rosero, who arrives with “the hope of following in the footsteps of Richard Carapaz”, in addition to being “determined and eager to progress.”
Lizarte was the entrance door of the Olympic champion to European cycling, it was in 2016, with a short, but fruitful step before joining the Movistar Team, the beginning of an outstanding career for the Locomotive.
At 19, Rosero has seven seasons of “intense cycling”, Last year he was with the national team in tests such as the Tour of the Future, the Circuit of the Ardennes, the Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc and the Flanders World Cup in the under-23 category.
Locally, in June Rosero won the title of national under-23 champion on the road and dreams “of becoming a professional cyclist and, why not, winning a Grand Tour”.
Getting to compete in Europe “is a dream come true” for the Ecuadorian. “Being part of a team as good as the Lizarte team is a joy,” he said.
For Jon Armendariz, sports director of Lizarte, the incorporation of the tricolor cyclist “can bring good things to the entire calendar, especially in tougher stages.”
The Navarrese coach highlights the Rosero’s “ease” “to pass the mountain”, but he anticipated that “his role will be to learn, like everyone else’s, and he will surely grow day after day until he ends up disputing.”
National champion Alexander Cepeda’s jersey rests in the Museo della Bicicletta
Finally, Armendariz stressed that Rosero “will fit in quite well with our philosophy” and work methodology, which has at Lizarte in a close bond with Movistar, to which they jumped in addition to Carapaz, the Costa Rican Andrey Amador and the spanish Héctor Carretero and Antonio Pedrero, everybody part of the Ecuadorian’s triumph in the 2019 Giro d’Italia. (D)
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