After making the decision not to represent Colombia in the Cycling World Championship, played last Sunday in Yorkshire (Great Britain), not feeling in the best conditions, Fernando Gaviria returns to take his bike to return to action.The UAE Emirates team confirmed Tuesday that the Colombian cyclist would be participating in some races in Germany and Italy, in which he will look for some victories.
The first race he will be in will be at the Sparkassen Münsterland, which will take place on Thursday, October 3, with a distance of 193.3 kilometers.
“The result of the race will probably be a packaging, where we can count on Gaviria. The entire team will be crucial in the packaging configuration. Our boys are well equipped to comply,” said Simone Pedrazzini, one of the team’s directors.
Besides, Gaviria will also be competing next Sunday at GP Beghelli, with a distance of 199.3 kilometers.
The Spanish cyclist Mikel Iturria has imposed this Wednesday in the eleventh stage of the Vuelta an España, played between Saint Palais and Urdax over 180 kilometers, after attacking from the escape 25 kilometers from the finish line in a field known to him that allows him to achieve his first professional victory.
Iturria got into the getaway of the day, where there were men like Gorka Izagirre (Astana), Craddock (EF) or Howson (Mitchelton-Scott), and chose to try his luck with a distant attack that was the good one, enduring a tense pulse with some persecutors who came to have almost hunted near the last kilometer.
In the platoon, with all the candidates for the general relax, there were no attacks on a rugged terrain with three ports, one of the second category (Col d’Ispéguy), and reached the finish line with 18 minutes lost from the escape , with a leader Primoz Roglic who will not have it so easy in the coming days.