Hondarribia (Gipuzkoa), 24 Mar The Scottish Primoz Roglic (Jumbo Visma), winner of the 2021 edition, will lead a squad in Itzulia 2022, where he will not live the long-awaited duel with his compatriot Tadej Pogacar, who will ultimately not race in the Basque Country. The Auditorium Itsas Etxea in Hondarribia hosted the presentation of the official Itzulia 2022 jerseys in which the informal list of participants has been advanced in a race that will start on April 4 in the town of Gipuzkoa and will end on the 9th in Arrate after the six-stage dispute. Roglic will lead a squad of 23 teams and more than 160 riders in which names such as those of his team-mate Jonas Vingegaard, second last year, and Sepp Kus, Enric Mas (Movistar), Jon izagirre (Cofidis), Geraint Thomas and Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadier), Julian Alaphilippe and Remenco Evenco Epoel (Quick Step Alpha Vinyl), Emmanuel Buchmann (Bora Hansgrohe), Brandon McNulty, Juan Ayuso and Marc Soler (UAE Emirates) or Peio Bilbao and Gino Mäder (Bahrain Victorious). Hondarribia, which hosted the start of this race in 1998, will be the starting point of the race with a 7.5-kilometer time trial that will cover the most emblematic points of the town of Gipuzkoa. The second stage, in Navarra territory, will unite Leitza and Viana, completing 207.92 kilometers that make this second day the longest in Itzulia. Llodio (Álava) will start the third day of the race to finish in Amurrio after 181 kilometers. The fourth stage between Vitoria and Igeteam Parke Zamudio (185 km) and the fifth stage between Ingeteam Parke Zamudio and Mallabia (163 km) will give way to the last day starting from Eibar and the traditional final climb to Arrate (135 km) which ended up deciding the winner of the race last year. Julián Eraso, president of Euskadi Cycling Organizations, recalled the two tough years of a pandemic that “it seems that we are coming out of”, which will make “this year we will see the animation of people in ports again”, although on the contrary he announced that “we are still going to keep the bubble for the protection of the runners and teams”. Eraso has also expressed concern about the ongoing war in Ukraine, a conflict for which the organization has expressed its strongest rejection. “These are difficult days,” said the president of OCETA, who hopes that the strike of transporters will not end up affecting the race. “We will try to make Itzulia serve as an incentive to overcome these bad moments,” said Eraso, who wished that the race could offer “a great show”. The official jerseys of the event were also presented at the event. The yellow that will distinguish the leader of the General General will continue to be sponsored by Banco Sabadell, while Eusko Label will sponsor the red dot jersey of the Mountain, Gipuzkoa Kirolak the Green of Regularity and the Euskadi Basque Country the blue of the Best Youth.
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