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Tour de France 2020 Ineos, forced to propose a more aggressive career
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mehe Ineos has changed his face to face a different Tour de France: the traditional British phlegm will have to make room for a more combative strategy to take their leader, the Colombian Egan bernal, to the top of the podium.
Used to playing with the timer on his side, the team led by Dave Brailsford arrives this time with a climber as a leader, which will change the way of running from a team used to having a time trialist as leader of the ranks.
Bernal himself recognized it in Nice a day before the strangest Tour in history starts, held in September and in the midst of huge security measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I have to try to gain time to have a cushion on the penultimate day, where normally I will lose time”, claimed the Zapaquirá, giving letter of nature to the new mentality of his team.
The British rule out that they will seek to soon dress their leader in yellow, in the event that the Tour, due to the pandemic, ends earlier than planned. “We are planning a three-week race, in no case are we going to seek leadership on the first mountain”Brailsford said.
The Ineos will not be able to settle for being the all-powerful formation that numbs the race while waiting for the blow of its leader, who normally played with time in their favor.
Brailsford also assured that in recent times the way of running has changed, that it is more aggressive, and that this Tour will continue in that trend. “You attack sooner and you attack more”, said the brain of the Ineos team, which predicted “a very busy career from the start“with” a path conducive to surprises “.
The British line-up is eager to shake off the sambenite that has dogged them in recent years, that of a steady-paced team that left little room for adventure. A fame that this edition wants to put on the shoulders of the Jumbo, the Dutch squad that comes with two of the favorites, the Slovenian Primoz Roglic in the forefront and the dutch Tom dumoulin in the bedroom.
“It’s good for us to have another high-level team, that motivates us, we will be able to share the responsibilities, we will not have to do everything ourselves “, he assured Bernal, who knows that the Jumbo are superior in the fight against the clock.
The Colombian recognized that he drags some pain in the back since the last Dauphiné And while he appears to be on the mend, he expects to be in top form by week three.
The Ineos also has an alternative in case Bernal does not measure up: the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz, rescued at the last minute for the formation of the Tour, although initially was scheduled to be the leader during the Giro d’Italia.
“Egan is fine, we are going to support him until the end. In the course of the race we will see if we have to make a ‘plan B,” said the former Movistar. Meanwhile, Carapaz happens to be Bernal’s great lieutenant, whom the team has wanted to rid of any shadow of the other two great stars of the team, the British Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas.
“Egan won last year and deserves to be the leader, things are clear and simplicity can help us. We are 100 percent to try to get Egan to win, “Brailsford said.
The Ineos thus renounced the duality that would have opened the door for Froome to add his fifth crown in the Tour. After the fall he suffered in Dauphiné last year, the Briton seems to have missed the train of joining the small club of five-time champions.
Bernal, for his part, is looking for his second crown, although at 23 the Colombian knows he has time to carve out a great record. Slowly but surely.
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