Two days after the start of the 105th edition of the Giro d’Italia, the teams that have Ecuadorian cyclists in their ranks confirmed their payrolls and finally It will be four tricolors that take the game this Friday in Budapest, Hungary.
Ineos Grenadiers and EF Education-Easy Postsuch as WorldTour teams, and the Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli, as a professional squad, they are the templates that will have Richard Carapaz, Jhonatan Narváez, Jonathan Caicedo and Alexander Cepeda as representatives of Ecuadorian cycling in Italy.
Richard Carapaz – Ineos Grenadiers
Richard Carapaz He will be as the leader of the Ineos Grenadiers. the of the locomotive was the first confirmed name among Ecuadorians and appears in a small group of runners as title favourite.
Signed in 2020 by Ineos, it will be this year when the carchense marks his first appearance in the Corsa Rosa with the British squad, who bets with the Ecuadorian to stay with the first big of the year.
The Locomotive He was champion in 2019 and part this season among the main options to lift the Senza Fine trophy on May 29 at the Verona Arena, the same place that saw him establish himself as the first national rider to win a Grand Tour title.
For Carapaz it will be his third participationhis debut in the Corsa Rosa was in 2018 with the Movistar Team, the edition in which he won the eighth stage.
His second appearance was in 2019, with victories in fractions four and fourteento consecrate champion at the end Of the test.
Jhonatan Narvaez – Ineos Grenadiers
Gregory of Richard Carapaz, Sucumbisense Jhonatan Narváez will have his fourth performance in the Giro. The alligator He made his debut in 2019 and it was not until 2020 that he achieved his first and only victory in the Corsa Rosa, on stage 12.
Their best overall performance was 2021 when he placed at box 49while in the fight for the best young man he was in eleventh place.
Of his three participations, Narváez did not complete the 2020 editionwhen retiring due to a fall in stage 15, which covered the route between Rivolto and Piancavallo.
Jonathan Caicedo – EF Education-EasyPost
Stage winner in 2020, the carchense jonathan caicedo He is another of the animators of the Giro this year.
The deer was the last national runner to be confirmed and appears among those with the best trajectory of the American squad in the Giro, after winning the third fraction in 2020, with the day that ended on Etna and that left him close to wearing pink, equaling in time with the Portuguese Joao Almeida.
That season he also led the mountain classification for two stages, in which dressed the blue jersey.
For Caicedo it will be his fourth appearance in the Corsa Rosa and will seek to improve his performances after not finishing the test in 2021, due to a fall on stage 11.
“This season I want to show myself a little more, look for better results. I want more opportunities the Giro allows me to dream a littleI will try to win a stage and put in a good performance with the team”, said Caicedo at the start of the season.
Alexander Cepeda – Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli
The youngest of the batch of tricolors in the Giro It’s Alexander Cepeda. With 23 years, vest It is in its third edition.
The one from Sucumbios debuted in 2020when he was ranked 78th overall and 28th in the best junior ranking.
Repeated performance in 2021 with Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec and kept fighting until the last days of the race, but Due to health problems, he did not appear at the nineteenth fraction.
Cepeda arrives at the Corsa Rosa with the title of best youngster in the Giro de Sicilia, a test he ran in March and in which he placed second overall, ahead of the Italian Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan), one of the favorites for the title this year. (D).
Source: Eluniverso
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