Pelayo Sánchez’s options cannot go only through the general ones
Spain and its love for the grand tours, the position, the general classification and the statistics, always focusing on the three weeks, on the passing of the kilometers, the aspiration of being the best at the end.
Those songs are already being heard around Pelayo Sánchez, I don’t know if it’s from his team or from the average fan or perhaps from the press.
The Asturian has been the discovery of these weeksthe most powerful emergence, I believe, of the Giro d’Italia, joining people like Pogacar, Narváez or Alaphilippe in the ideal 8 of the race.
The Frenchman must have seen him well on the day of the sterrato to only have eyes on Pelayo Sánchez, in a group full of good riders.
Pelayo’s handling that day was brutal, a rounded and perfect performance full of quality and engine, but also of excellent sensations in the layout of the stage, showing just enough, measuring a lot and killer spirit at the end.
But it wasn’t just that day, was his omnipresence in the racethe three weeks of it, like that bunny in the pile.
Never faltered.
The Tour of Switzerland has opened a debate that, I admit, I did not see coming: Should Pelayo compete in Grand Tours?
A priori I would say no, as Samuel Sánchez, who is not his cousin, but knows him well, told us: “He is a potential Ion Izagirre.”
For me, the fact that he looks like good old Ion is enough and more than enough for me, because being like the Gipuzkoan is connecting directly with that middle class that did so much good for Spanish cycling, a middle class of Iñalis Gastones, Pepes Recios, Peios and Julianes Gorospes, 40 years ago, who over time has had great students such as Eduardo Chozas or Pablo Lastras and who in recent times has been somewhat scarce,
Pelayo Sánchez, with this way of running, has shown that It may give results but it also gives the sponsor a brutal projection.enough to have him in the running for big matches.
Cycling is not just about winning a grand tour or getting a good result, it is made up of 21 stages in 3-week races and many good names enter and leave them, which are in the end the ones that write the greatness of the race and the legend that accompanies him.
Getting in there, having the instinct to hunt down so many leaks and then resolve them so well is a gift that only a few can achieve, and I hope Pelayo maintains it.
Try a big one? Why not? But right now he already seems like a great runner to me.
2024-06-28 12:21:36
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