The Movistar cyclist, Imanol Erviti, analyzed the latest edition of the Tour of Spain and spoke of the “unreal” episode that the telephone team experienced with the abandonment of Miguel Ángel López, in an interview for him Navarra newspaper.
“We have run as we can, not as we wanted”said the man from Pamplona, who will turn 38 in November, and who we will see again next season in blue. “I will continue because I continue to enjoy this, I see myself in the sauce and physically I see that I am capable of doing a good job for the team. I spoke with Eusebio during the Vuelta and everything is arranged to continue”Erviti stated.
This year it was a difficult Vuelta for him and his team, as they lost up to three teammates along the way and that conditioned their career. “It changes everything. All your movements condition you, you don’t actually run to your liking, your rhythm or your idea. You go to the dance that others mark. We have had to run super braces all the time, every day, because we had more to lose than to gain “, assured the Navarrese. “In spite of everything, running under those circumstances has united us a lot with those of us who were doing teamwork. Having a difficult challenge and being able to hold it strengthens confidence. We got serious and it was very difficult to get out of there. Under these circumstances you give more, it is not known how but you answer “Erviti said.
The cyclist from Pamplona affirmed that they did not lack motivation in the Vuelta: “The fundamental thing is that you go out each stage with a beautiful objective, to keep one second and another third. That makes you see that however you have to do things well, we are in the ointment”.
The episode of Miguel Ángel López
Erviti lived in the first person the abandonment of Superman López in the Vuelta. The Navarrese came to stop in the race to try to convince his partner that he should continue. “I got off the bike and tried to convince him to go ahead with good words, to react because he had time to recover and I told him that he could do it out of commitment to the team, because of the teammates who were there, that he was going to regret it. “, he claimed.
“It is a very violent situation. You live it all with disbelief, it still seems unreal to me. What happened happened. Healing the wounds of Miguel Ángel is not going to be easy. It will require work, time and patience on the part of everyone. It is a situation in which reliability jumps through the air, and the first injured party of everything that has happened is him “Erviti finished.