He Movistar Team He was left with one of the great jewels of Colombian cycling. The telephone companies announced this Monday the signing of Diego Pescador, one of the most promising climbers in the world.
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Fishermanwho turns 20 on December 20, leaves the continental team GW Erco Shimano to put on the jersey of the telephone team starting in 2025. The Colombian cyclist has been showing very good results at the international level after shining in tests such as the GP Palio del Recioto, the Piva Trophy and in the Tour del Porvenir of 2023 and 2024.
“There have been many beautiful moments in 2024 for me. In the spring races in Italy, such as the Trofeo Piva (3rd), Palio del Recioto (2nd) or the Settimana Coppi e Bartali, I enjoyed it a lot, gained experience and was able to give a good presence at the front of the team,” said Pescador.
And he added: “The Vuelta de la Juventud was the most important of the year for us and I left with great satisfaction, both with my own performance and with the entire block. With that enthusiasm I traveled to my first sub-23 Giro, a super demanding race with a tremendous level, eight beautiful days, with heat, mountains… I didn’t arrive with the best sensations, but it left me with a great taste and level for the Tour del Porvenir, the international event that was most marked on my calendar and the most important in the world in the category. Thank God everything went very well: I improved my performance in 2023, it was an honor to represent Colombia there and to be among the top ten overall, in today’s cycling, is a great satisfaction for someone who has fought so hard. ‘from below’. The Tour has a beautiful mystique, it has always gone very well for me and from it I rescue many good moments from this time.”
The native of Quindío He will arrive next year at the World Tour, the highest category of international cycling after signing a contract with the Movistar Team for three seasons.
“Movistar Team has always helped Latin Americans a lot, it has opened the doors a lot to cycling on this side of the world. Starting this new path with them… the truth is, there are days when I wake up and I still don’t believe it,” he said.
Regarding his arrival to the Spanish squad, he indicated: “It is a WorldTour team; the team of my reference, Nairo Quintana, whom I have always greatly admired and watched on TV when I was little. Being on the team where he did his great deeds is something that one cannot imagine. It makes me very, very excited. I hope to learn a lot. I know that it is a team with a winning mentality and I would like to contribute the most, dream of success together. “I am the first Quindiano in the Movistar Team, and I think it will mark a before and after in my department.”
. I know that I am joining a good team, where they will support me and make it easy for me to do well. It will depend on me
“Above all, I want to progress as a person. I want to put everything I have been taught at home into practice here. Leave a mark of the entire process I have followed. Also fight to be part of that ‘generational change’ that the Colombian fans us. he claims. I know that I am joining a good team, where they will support me and make it possible for me to do well. It will depend on me to do well, have discipline, ambition, be responsible and look forward to it. first concentration, to start 2025 in the best way. I thank God, the team and my entire family, who have fought so hard for this. It is a dream come true, and even more so in a team like this, where Colombia has always been a figure,” added the young Colombian.
Movistar He returned to fishing in Colombian waters and stayed with the runner who was the best young man in the Vuelta a Colombia and winner of a stage in the RCN Classic in 2023.
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