On the other side of the phone, Alejandro Valverde's voice transmits boredom and uncertainty. Since his confinement in Murcia, he perceives that the season could be considered lost, despite the UCI's announcement to resume activity in the summer. "Here I am, rolling, with the children, thank goodness that I have a big house and they can play soccer, tennis or ride a bike."

A month of confinement. How are you doing? I try to organize myself. I get up at seven, I do roller for an hour and a quarter, breakfast, then I am with the family, in the afternoon gym and core. What do you miss the most? That I get air in my face, go out with the here and there, go with the family to dinner, to the movies ... So many things! The UCI has decided the dates of the Tour, Tour and Tour. But no one guarantees that this is final. It all depends on the pandemic. Of course, let's see how everything evolves. There is still a lot until summer. It is important that the Tour be held, but looking at how he is painting all this, that it is not going well, I do not know what will happenThe mayor of Los Angeles says that in his city sporting events will not be organized until 2021. Are you aware that you can lose a year of competition Everything is very complicated, we want there to be sports, but realistically I see very black that this year we can run. At the beginning of the confinement I did not get the idea of ​​losing this year, but seeing how everything progresses, I am thinking more and more about it. You take care of yourself and train with the roller, but you do it with little motivation. You can't do specific jobs, because you don't know what your goals will be. If you lose this year, could you delay your withdrawal? Let's see. The truth is that all this supposes a drastic change, it is necessary to value all the aspects. It is possible that it delays the withdrawal, but we will see how all this happens and then we already say: The dispute of the Tour in August could modify the establishment of favorites. Will Froome and Dumoulin have more time to recover? It may be, but I think Tour, Giro and Vuelta will be very atypical races, with results very different from those of the usual dates. The body is used to a routine and to specific temperatures. In addition, the fact of being a long period at home will influence a lot. The body gets used to everything and thanks to the latest-generation applications of the rollers, everything is easier, simulating the road runs very well, but some are doing outrageous things with training sessions of five or six hours in a row. This does not make sense because we do not know what the closest objectives will be. The roller burns you physically and mentally. Will participating in the three great rounds be impossible? Yes. Let's see what happens with the Vuelta in November and with the weather we get. I believe that the route should be changed, just as the dates have changed, that the route should be changed. This year, the route goes through the northern zone, the coldest, so it would be necessary to look for warmer regions and ports that can be climbed on those dates. Everything will be very distorted. Now your main goal will be the World Cup in Switzerland, which has a mountainous profile? I don't know. With this complicated topic that we have, it is difficult to ask you something.

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