Mountain is what it is. This could be said when analyzing the route of the Return to Switzerland, race that starts today with a 4.7 kilometer prologue and in which the Colombian Egan Bernal (Ineos) Not only is he the country’s card, but he is also one of the contenders to fight for the podium.
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There will be six Colombians who take part in a race that has seen them win. At Movistar they will be Nairo Quintanawhich comes from making a Italy spin decorous, and Einer Rubio, the gregarious of Enric Mas. Sergio Higuita will be with him (Bora) and Brandon Rivera will be Bernal’s right hand man.
Nairo Quintana
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Of the eight competitions he has been in, he has finished in the top 10 in seven and was third in O Gran Camino and the Tour of Catalonia.
The corridor of Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca, He has a place in the team that will go to the Tour, but in the first instance he will help the Spanish Carlos Rodríguez to fight for the general classification, but Egan has everything to go for a top 10 and Switzerland is a good laboratory to know what conditions he is in.
Egan Bernal
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Bernal knows what it’s like to win Swisssince he was the champion in 2019. Quintana He was third in 2018, Rigoberto Urán was runner-up in 2020, like Higuita, who did the same in 2020, while the other title was achieved by Miguel Ángel López in 2016, in a race in which Fabio Parra opened the great Colombian history, when it was third in 1987.
Bernal has everything to fight for, to continue on the path of protagonist and Switzerland is a good starting point for what he can do in the Tour.
Egan Bernal
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