To the gold badges on his uniform Richard Carapaz will add, from this season, the Ecuadorian flag, which can be worn during the tests of individual time trial (CRI) what a dispute This after the title achieved this Friday in the national cycling championship which takes place in Quito.
the carchense won the CRI winone of the two titles he will seek in the tournament organized by the Ecuadorian Cycling Federation; the other will be in the online road test, which will be run on Sunday, February 20.
The locomotive ran in Quito on behalf of the British team Ineos Grenadiers, applauded by hundreds of fans who bet on a circuit that had its starting and finishing points at the foot of the Middle of the World monument, north of the Ecuadorian capital.
“I am enchanted by the affection of the people, so they show us on the road. I am grateful to everyone,” said an emotional Carapaz.
this 2022, the Olympic champion returned to compete officially in the country. His last appearance was in the Tour of Ecuador 2014before turning professional and beginning his meteoric rise in the elite of world cycling.
“It is the first race that I do after I went to Europe”, he commented, Hence, he expressed his “pride” for winning the tricolor shirt that he will be able to wear in the Grand Tour time trials, like the Giro d’Italia, to which he plans to go as leader of the British, in May.
“I feel very proud and today more than ever because I have the opportunity to win this shirt. I am very proud of this, especially because of what has happened in recent weeks, with the fall in France and the spread of COVID-19,” he said.
Carapaz tested positive for coronavirus at the controls of the Tour de Provence, for which he had to abandon the French test. The Wednesday, a new test was negative and undertook a trip to Ecuador, to arrive on Thursday afternoon, with just hours to recover from the trip and hit the road today.
Secured the first title, the Locomotive aim for a second crownthe one I dispute this Sunday and that would give him the right to wear the national tricolor in all online tests.
“We don’t know much about the circuit, but it is very complex”said the carchense, for a 9.6 kilometer track to which the elite group will complete 17 laps to complete a distance of 163.2 kilometers.
Completed the cycling nationals, Carapaz plans to rejoin Ineos for the continuation of its calendar of competitions with the Strade Bianche, scheduled for March 5 in Italy, a country where two days later I would be in the Tyrrhenian Adriatic, and from Monday 21 in the Return to Catalonia (Spain). “These are the races we have on the agenda before the Giro”, noted the Olympic champion. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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