{"id":193957,"date":"2023-09-19T17:10:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T17:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=193957"},"modified":"2023-09-19T17:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T17:10:27","slug":"four-impressive-vuelta-riders-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2023\/09\/19\/four-impressive-vuelta-riders-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Impressive Vuelta Riders for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Road racing is increasingly becoming a sport dominated by the young, those 25 years of age or younger. The reason that is unique \u2013 but will soon become the norm \u2013 is that more cyclists become interested in the sport at a younger age today thanj they have in the past and the talented and committed join junior teams from established professional teams that offer them state-of-the-art technology and training and the opportunity to compete in top-level races at a young age.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven of the top 20 finishers of the recently completed Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a were 25 or younger and therefore eligible for the white jersey for best young rider in the GC. That was won by Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), who turned 21 on the next-to-last day of the Vuelta. Lenny Martinez (Groupama-FDJ), who is 20, wore the race leader\u2019s jersey for two days, defending Vuelta champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) won three stages and the King of the Mountains jersey, while 24-year-old Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) won the Vuelta\u2019s \u0160koda Green Jersey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Evenepoel has become one of the sport\u2019s superstars, other up-and-coming stars of the sport are less well-known, though they should be. The problem for young riders eager to win a Grand Tour is that, like young tennis players coming of age in the era of Federer, Djokovic and Nadal, they are racing against perhaps the best group of Grand Tour riders in history, in Jonas Vingegaard and Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d (both Jumbo-Visma), Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates) and Evenepoel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude0d\u00a1Aqu\u00ed ten\u00e9is las mejores fotos de la etapa 21!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 A selection of the best photos from stage 21!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf2 M\u00e1s fotos \/ More photos on <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rCn67bhhG6\">https:\/\/t.co\/rCn67bhhG6<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LaVuelta23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LaVuelta23<\/a> &#8211; \ud83d\udcf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cxcling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cxcling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DJpOcNmVgS\">pic.twitter.com\/DJpOcNmVgS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; La Vuelta (@lavuelta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lavuelta\/status\/1703520927995076979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of the young riders mentioned above, Ayuso appears to be the most likely to be able to compete on that level soon and perhaps win a Grand Tour. Despite injuries that hampered his progress, he has had a very good year, placing fourth in the Vuelta, behind the Jumbo-Visma juggernaut, and second in the Tour de Suisse while winning two stages in that race, including the ITT. However, as he finished third in last year\u2019s Vuelta, he was not totally satisfied with the result.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLast year was my first Grand Tour and I finished on the third step of the podium, which was \u2026 really really big for me,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavuelta.es\/en\/news\/2023\/stage-21\/juan-ayuso-i-came-with-bigger-ambitions\/40764\">he said<\/a>. \u201cThis year, I came with bigger ambitions, but it wasn\u2019t possible against a very strong team. But I think my performance has improved a lot since last year and I have to just think about that. For sure, being the best young rider is a nice reward. But we came for more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bora-Hansgrohe\u2019s 20-year-old Cian Uijtdebroeks was for me the big surprise of the 2023 Vuelta, with his climbing ability, aggressive riding and eighth-place GC finish. The biggest victory in his short career was the GC win in last year\u2019s Tour de l\u2019Avenir, which is restricted to young riders. But the young Belgian is very ambitious and is already comparing himself to champions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe difference between Tadej Poga\u010dar and me is that he is really very explosive,\u201d he told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtbf.be\/article\/cian-uijtdebroeks-remco-evenepoel-est-loin-devant-mais-je-pense-avoir-le-niveau-dilan-van-wilder-11224918\">Belgian RTBF<\/a> TV station while training for the Vuelta. \u201cOne could say that I\u2019m more like Jonas Vingegaard. But Vingegaard is very thin, Poga\u010dar is bigger and I\u2019m also bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His ambition is to win a Grand Tour, of course, and especially the Tour de France. So, while he said he was enjoying his time with Bora, \u201cfor the Grand Tours we\u2019re not at the level of Jumbo, Ineos and UAE.\u201d Therefore he is considering moving to another team when his contract expires in 2024. \u201cEverything depends on the will of the team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 23-year-old Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain-Victorious) had an excellent year, finishing tenth in the Vuelta, third in the Vuelta a Andalucia and in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.procyclingstats.com\/race\/liege-bastogne-liege\/2023\/result\">Li\u00e8ge- Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge<\/a>, and winning a stage in the Giro d\u2019Italia, to go with the Giro stage he won last year. His Vuelta finish was especially impressive as he also served as team leader Mikel Landa\u2019s mountain support and helped him to a very good fifth-place finish. With Landa committed to riding for Evenepoel\u2019s Soudal-QuickStep next year, we can expect to hear much more from the young Colombian in 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martinez had a disappointing second half of the Vuelta, his first-ever Grand Tour ride. But he impressed many observers with his performances in the early stages, which enabled the Frenchman to become the youngest-ever Vuelta race leader at 20 years and 51 days old, surpassing the record set by the great Miguel Indurain in the 1986 Vuelta, when he was 20 years and 283 days old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m still very young, I wanted to do my best and get the jersey,&#8221; he said after taking the race leader\u2019s red jersey. &#8220;Actually leading doesn&#8217;t change my plans. I still want to see what I can do overall.&#8221; He will have been disappointed with his 24th-place finish in the Vuelta GC, but Indurain finished 92nd in that 1986 Vuelta and did not win his first Grand Tour until he was 26. Could Martinez be the rider who finally ends France\u2019s now 38-year drought in its home Grand Tour? The good news is that by the time he is 26, Poga\u010dar and Vingegaard \u2013 who have won the last four Tours de France \u2013 will be 29 and 31 respectively, old men by today\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road racing is increasingly becoming a sport dominated by the young, those 25 years of age or younger. 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