Movistar already has a team for the Dauphiné Critérium that starts this Sunday. the balearic enric mas will lead the ‘seven’ of the Spanish team that will travel French roads until the next day 11, in what will be the fifth appearance of his career in this testwith eleventh place in 2021 as the ceiling.
They will cover him in his attempt to remove the thorn from last year, in which he decided not to start in the eighth stage, afflicted by a spectacular fall in the fifth stage, the American Matteo Jorgenson, the Portuguese Nelson Oliveira, the Austrian Gregor Muhlberger and the Spaniards Jorge Arcas, Antonio Pedrero and Sergio Samitier.
Enric will have no competition in Tadej Pogacar, who for the third consecutive year will not start this race, which until now he has only contested in 2020, when he finished fourth. The Slovenian, who at this time is used to running in his homeland, does not appear in the team announced by the UAE, which will line up the Italians Alessandro Covi and Davide Formolo, the Swiss Marc Hirschi, the Slovenian Domen Novak, the Portuguese Rui Oliveira and Australian Michael Vink.
As for Pogacar, the UAE has scheduled a press conference for this Friday at 5:00 p.m. in which he will offer an update on the fitness of his star runner, once recovered from the wrist injury that caused him to fall in Liège-Bastogne last April.
