Everything is ready for the start of the 73rd edition of the Return to Colombia, which will depart this Friday with a section to the individual clock of 74, kilometers in Macanal, Boyacá.
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The race will not feature the current champion, the boyacense, Miguel Angel Lopez, who was suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI) for four years for doping. However, there are favorites to take over that throne such as Rodrigo Contreras and Sergio Luis Henao, Nu Colombia cyclists.
difficult route
174 runners will compete in the test, distributed in 25 teams, who will cover 1,295 kilometers of the departments ofe Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Tolima, Caldas, Risaralda, Valle and Antioquia.
“He Team Medellin will be led by another veteran: Fabio Duarte, winner of the 2019 and 2022 editions who will seek his third title in the Vuelta a Colombia. Likewise, among the participants is the Ecuadorian Jonathan Caicedo winner of a stage of the Giro d’Italia in 2020, who today competes in the Mexican team Petrolike,” said the EFE agency.
And he added: “Six foreign squads will participate in the Vuelta a Colombia: five with continental category, among which are two Ecuadorian teams, two Mexican and one Panamanian, and the Pio Rico Cycling Team from Bolivia, of regional category.”
The agency warns that “the race, which will be held between June 14 and 23, will culminate with an individual time trial of 17.3 kilometers in Medellin. Among the stages there is one that stands out, the fourth, in which the cyclists will travel 143.4 kilometers from Mariquita to the High of Letters, a mountain pass located more than 3,500 meters above sea level. The runners will pass through two passes that exceed 4,000 meters in height, the Ventanas and El Sifón heights, in the department of Tolima. The fifth fraction also stands out between Buga and Apía, and the eighth between Supía and el Alto de Minas, that will have two demanding mountain prizes each.”
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