Rigoberto Urán defends Nairo Quintana: ‘Any result for him would be enormous’

In big races you always expect to see the best version of all the cyclists. Colombians have been leaders in sports for a long time. However, they are not saved from criticism every time their level drops.

Reasons for defense

Rigoberto Uran is not present in the current edition of the Giro d’Italia, one of the ‘big three’ races in world cyclingbut remains aware of all the stages and the performance of the Colombians in the competition.

As a guest at the broadcast of stage 1 of the race for the RCN program “gregarios”, Urán took the opportunity to talk about Nairo Quintana and showered him with praise, ensuring that for him “anything goes.”

Quintana He did not arrive in his best version to the race as he had announced after an injury in the Vuelta a Catalunya, this has led to questions. Given this, The Antioquian made it clear that his colleague’s level is world-class.

“Nairo, whatever he does right now is profit, anything goes”, assured Urán and recognized that Nairo is one of the best cyclists in Colombia. “We are talking about the rider who has won the most races, one of the most important achievements that Colombian cyclists have.”

“He went through a very difficult time, many of us thought it was going to be the end, but he is a boar, a fighter. One often does not know the problems that exist, because there must be many psychological things and being taken away like this must be very complicated.“Urán mentioned.

In addition to this, to demonstrate the merit of a cyclist continuing to fight in high-level races, ‘Rigo’ told an anecdote with Chris Froome.

“These days I was training with him and he told me: “for me, going on a breakaway from the Tour de France and being able to compete in it would be something very big. I told him: ‘and why don’t you retire?’ and he told me ‘no, this year I’m going to see if they take me to the Tour and For me it would be very big to break away and try to win the stage’“, concluded the cyclist,

This is how the Giro goes

Today the fourth stage of the Giro d’Italia was held, the winner was Jonathan Milan in an exciting arrival at the finish line followed by Kaden Groves and Phil Bauhaus.

The Colombian best positioned in the stage was Fernando Gaviria of the Movistar Team who came seventh grade. In the general classification, the best positioned in the table are Daniel Martinez in third place with the Bora-Hansgrohe team and Einer Rubio of the Movistar Team that occupies fifth place. The top 10 closes it Esteban Chaves from EF-Education.