As one of the top references of the British team Ineos Grenadiers in the WorldTour, Richard Carapaz bets everything to wear the tricolor jersey this season which will be in dispute this weekend in Quito, during the national road camps in individual time trial modalities and the online test.
For positive for COVID-19, the Carchense left the Tour de la Provence last Saturday, contagion overcome after new assessments, so it will be on the starting line of the nationals.
“We return recharged, the national championship awaits us”, announced this Wednesday the Olympic champion, with which he raised the expectation for his participation in the tests to be run between February 18 and 20.
Assured your presence, It was Ineos who announced that the Ecuadorian will seek the titles in both tests: CRI and route online.
“Good news! Richard Carapaz will compete on the roads of Ecuador this week. He will face the time trial (18th of February) and to the road race (February 20) ”, posted the British team.
The CRI will run on Friday in a circuit near the Middle of the World Citya 9.55-kilometre route, which the elite category will cover in four laps.
The online test is scheduled for Sunday, in a circuit of 9.6 kilometers by the north of Quitoto which the group of Locomotive It will give 17 laps, until completing the 163.2 kilometers planned.
The national championships award the winners of each category with the tricolor jersey, a distinction that cyclists can carry in all their competitions, depending on the modality in which they obtained it.
In the case of Carapaz, if he wins the title he will be able to carry the national flag in his races this season, the case of the Giro d’Italia, which is one of the three Grand Tours for which Ineos has it as leader, with the option of also going to the Tour de France, tests that also have stages against the clock, which is the other modality to which the Locomotive will choose this year.
Until this edition, Jhonatan Narváez (2017) with the Quick-Step, Jonathan Caicedo (2019 and 2020) with the EF Education First (today EF Education-Easy Post) and Alexander Cepeda (2021) have already worn the tricolor jersey in WorldTour races. , defending champion, who did it with the Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec, called Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli for 2022.
Caicedo was also in 2019 and 2020 time trial champion, title than the past 2021 won Jorge Montenegro, who will be with the Banco Guayaquil-Ecuador team to defend a title that is in Carapaz’s sights, in a modality that the carchense has worked during the last months. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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