Sunday’s Critérium du Dauphiné winner Dani Martinez overlooked before signing with EF Pro Cycling for the 2018 season, according to team leader Jonathan Vaughters, and is now part of a Colombian climbing triumvirate on his US WorldTour team.USA, along with Rigoberto Uran and Sergio Higuita, who may be about to provoke a typhoon in the tour of France rescheduled this year.
With Dauphiné leader Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), without starting for the maximum level due to injuries sustained the previous day, he opened the general title, with Martinez starting from level five on Sunday with just 12 seconds the new race leader Thibaut.Pinot (Groupama -FDJ).And when Martinez joined the breakup duo Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) and Pavel Sivakov (Team Inoes) before the penultimate rise of the Cote de Cordon, Pinot may simply not sustain himself, despite the Frenchman’s most productive efforts.
“This is one of the highest days of my life,” said a jubilant Martinez in a team press release after completing moment on the last level but doing enough to win the Dauphiné name at 29 Pinot moments and 41 moments from Guillaume Martin (Cofidis).”This is one of the most important races and I am very happy to have done so.
“I’m still so tired of the race, and I still can’t have happened.It’s amazing because the last race we raced was in Colombia and we won,” Martínez continued, referring to Tour Colombia 2.1 in February.won through Higuita, with the moment of Martinez and his Ecuadorian teammate Jonathan Caicedo third.”And then we won here also today, in the Dauphiné.
“I mean this race is for my total circle of relatives and my young son, this victory is for them,” Martinez added.”It’s for all the other people who believed in me and those who helped me myself so that it only gets to this point.
“This week, everyone worked really hard,” said the 24-year-old.”We had some difficult times, like Sergio’s accident [at the time stage], but the whole team really helped me: Rigo, Hugh [Carthy].”- they were all amazing. And also for EF, which is this team.This victory is for them and their staff all over the world.”
Martínez is part of the revival of colombian cycling fashion in cycling that has long surpassed that of the 1980s, when Luis ‘Lucho’ Herrera and Fabio Parra won classifications and mountain stages in Grand Tours, and Herrera, like Martínez now, won the Critérium.Dauphiné in 1988 and 1991.
With riders adding 2019 Tour de France champion Egan Bernal (Team Ineos), 2014 Giro d’Italia winner and 2016 Vuelta a España, Nairo Quintana (Arkéa-Samsic) and 2016 Giro runner-up Esteban Chaves ( Mitchelton-Scott), Martínez, Uran and Higuita have shown their talent in the primary of climbing stages, and this Colombian presence is accelerating.
“When we recruited Dani in 2018 into a Pro Continental team [Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia – existing team of Vini Zaba-KTM Italian ProTeam], it’s fair to say he neglected it,” Jonathan Vaughters said after his pilot’s victory on Sunday.”It happens all the time in this sport.
“But Rigo [Rigoberto Uran] gave it to me, and he believed in Dani.And after a few years of running together, it’s transparent that this was an opportunity,” he said.”Dani has put the hard paintings to succeed in this.”level, and his taste fits perfectly to this team, he could not be happier for him and for the whole team, especially our Colombian contingent of runners and fans.
“Dani won this race with tactics and taste, just as this team won the Dauphiné in 2014 with Andrew Talansky,” Vaughters continued, referring to the now retired American who jumped from the 3rd overall level to the top level to skip both.Alberto Contador and Chris Froome won the name six years ago.
“These two victories were unforeseen and dazzling races that showed not only strength but also intelligence,” Vaughters said.”It’s very revealing who we are as an organization: we’re not a tough team, but we locate the skill and run with conviction.That’s who we are, and today it was transparent on the roads.It brings a huge smile to my face.”
While ef Pro Cycling’s last team of 8 drivers has still been announced for the upcoming Tour de France, Martinez is expected to meet with Uran and Higuita in Nice on August 29 for what would be his tour moment, having finished 36th in 2018.
“It’s been a really strange season,” Vaughters added, “and a really difficult time for so many people.For us, this will be for EF and for those to whom we when the tokens are low.Today it shows the kind of equipment,” we really are, and I’m grateful to have EF on our side.We will celebrate this very well and see you soon on the Tour.”
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