The Italy spin has finished its experiment of announcing your 2022 tour by installments, on five different dates, which culminated this Thursday with the last piece of the puzzle: a 17 km time trial who will put the clasp on Verona, just as he did in 2019, with fond memories for Richard Carapaz and the Movistar. The pink round, by the way, has become the fashion of the great ones to sift through the times, with only 26 km. The method of presentation was not very popular. Although it extends the enigma in time, the information sprinkled with a dropper does not allow us to analyze the route to the final map, and it also deprives cycling of that party that the act itself supposes. The Tour de France yes he celebrated it, in October in Paris. And the Back to Spain will complete the triplet on December 16, in Madrid.
The routes of the greats will have a curious point in common in the next season: the three will start outside their country. The Tour, from Copenhagen (Denmark); the Giro, from Budapest (Hungary); and the Vuelta, from Utrecht (Netherlands). In this coincidence, which is not so, it has influenced that the Giro and the Vuelta recover two years later the starts that they had to cancel for the pandemic. The habit of visiting abroad has been ingrained for decades, although before it was done with forays into neighboring countries and with a cycling tradition. Not anymore. Now they dare from further afield, and especially daring has been the Giro in recent times, with departures from Israel, almost 4,000 kilometers away, and Northern Ireland, at 2,000. The insistence is related to an economic issue, of course, but also to the globalization of cycling. The Tour, the Giro and the Vuelta are powerful international brands, more and more in demand outside their borders, who do not lose their identity by leaving their country, as the Dakar has not given up theirs even though they have not set foot in the capital of Senegal for 14 years.
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