A good part of the generation of the 90s, Nairo’s, is looking for something else
Note that when we talk about the generation of 1990, we talk about Nairo Quintana and contemporaries such as Tom Dumoulin, Peter Sagan, Rohan Dennis, Romain Bardet, Michal Kwiatkowski, Fabio Aru, Esteban Chaves, Thibaut Pinot and the great Peter Sagan.
Tours of France do not go there, largely because of Team Sky’s monopoly, but they do. Spins. Laps, monuments and world championships of both types, time trial & route.
Now if we look at some of the members of that generation, we will see that they are into something else, with smaller goals or even outside of cycling, let’s say that only Nairo Quintana is with the idea of the maximum scenarioseven ahead of the still active Bardet, Chaves and Kwiato.
Before getting into the details, look at this graph on Bicio to explain what this batch was five or six years ago and where it is now.
And it is not a reproach to say that today are very far from those days, it is a reality that is explained, in my opinion by that plethora of young people who began to shine from the age of 19 or 20.
The outrage they suffered with the emergence of Pogacar, Remco, Bernal and Co. has been notorious.
Words from Mikel Landa, who is not from ’90, but from ’89, when Remco Evenepoel won the 2020 Vuelta a Burgos: «These are not going to leave us even the crumbs«.
This has largely been the case, few major races have been held without them in the running and when they have been there they have monopolized the debate, along with others, who are not so young, but are very good, like Roglic or Vingegaard.
We have the best summary quickly saying that The best tests of 2024 have been between Pogacar, Remco, Roglic, Van der Poel and Vingegaard.
That generation had elements that we can extrapolate to the current one: For example, Peter Sagan exploded very early, as did Nairo Quintana, who was second in the Tour with the white jersey of best young man.
It took a little longer for Esteban Chaves and Tom Dumoulin to rise to fame.
These two have been especially ephemeral, the Colombian took the step in the 2015 Vuelta, stepped on two podiums and won Lombardy in 2016 and since then flashes in the midst of the darkness.
Dumoulin hit his peak in the 2017 Giro, he was on the podium in the Giro and Tour the following year, and a knee injury in the Italian major took him out of the pools forever until he partially retired, won silver in the Olympic Games and went to always the following year.
Fabio Aru went on to win the celebrated Vuelta in 2015 and was able to be the leader of the Tour to improve his physical problems.
In this sense, the trajectories of Kwiatkowski and Pinot have been more stable and solid over time, like that of Peter Sagan until before the pandemic.
With this photo, in this scenario, Nairo Quintana wants to keep the flame of his generation alivewith stellar appearances by Romain Bardet.
Between the two of them, and hoping that Chavito leaves us some mark, they have a very complicated mission in the midst of these wolves.
2023-12-21 23:18:13
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