The grandfather dances on a path strewn with traps to the admiration of some rivals who have already assumed that the utopian is feasible with him.
Alejandro Valverde
, at 41 years old, leaves his imperishable signature at the Critérium Dauphiné, the last higher-ranking test prior to the Tour de France.
The 2018 world champion prevailed on the sixth day of the French round, ending at the port of Le Sappey in Charteuse, after an extraordinary ramp sprint and a great job from Movistar.
Austrian
Lukas Postlberger
(Bora Hansgrohe) lost the yellow jersey to Kazakh
Alexey Lutsenko
(Astana).
Valverde completed Movistar's control work on the last climb, where
Carlos
Verona
assumed command of the main group and selected the group to take down
Lukas Pöstlberger
and the sprinters and to clear the ground for his leader.
The man from Madrid is an outstanding gregarious man, with class and power.
When he used up his bullets, the figure of Superman
Miguel Ángel López
resurfaced
, who was in charge of closing the gaps opened by
Tao Geoghegan
and
David Gaudu
.
The leader of the telephone squad, sacrificing his personal options and acting as a faithful squire.
Farewell to the quarrels of yesteryear, welcome a promising new alliance.
The Colombian was ready, printing the right speed so that in the last 200 meters Valverde jumped to overcome
Tao Geoghegan
and add his second victory of the season.
The grandfather calculated the distance perfectly and gave him time to raise his arms and celebrate his new victory, the 129th of his extensive record.
With my mind in Tokyo
Valverde is not only the oldest rider on the Dauphiné, but also on the UCI World Tour.
He is one of the three participants in this edition who can boast of having the French round in his record (2008 and 2009 editions), the other two are
Chris Froome
(2013, 2015, 2016) and
Geraint Thomas
(2018).
Second win of the season after the
Indurain Grand Prix
in April
.
Decorous campaign after the terrible 2020. In this course he has fought for victory in the classics of
Liège-Bastoña-Liège
(third),
Flecha Walloon
(third) and
Amstel Gold Race
(fifth) and was close to the triumph in stages in
the Basque Country
and
Volta a Catalunya
.
His main objective is gold in the Olympic Games, for this he will face the Tour in order to refine the state of form for the appointment of Japan.
With the Murcian it is useless to set an expiration date, but his intention is to prolong the competitive activity until 2022, to say goodbye with the public on the roads.
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