2023-08-24 09:12:15
While he will leave Ineos training at the end of the season to join UAE Emirates, Pavel Sivakov strongly regretted his absence at Vuelta.
The adventure of Pavel Sivakov within the Ineos-Grenadiers team ends in bitterness. The Frenchman is one of the many riders that the English team has decided to let go. A boon for the UAE Emirates team which proved more convincing than QuickStep-Soudal despite the forcing of Remco Evenepoel. But if the tricolor rider has it bad, it is because of his non-selection for the Vuelta.
While the Tour of Spain is due to start this Saturday, Pavel Sivakov must be content with the Tour of Germany. And the tricolor runner did not hide his frustration at the end of the prologue on Wednesday. “We will say that I had a big blow last week. I was told that I was not going to do La Vuelta, it was really difficult. I spent a month and a half at altitude this summer and three weeks with this squad. We then all went together to the Tour of Poland. It went well, very well indeed. Afterwards, I went straight back to altitude to prepare this Vuelta. I think I was in the best condition of my season, in my opinion I was even better than before the Giro, and then there you go…”, he regretted at the microphone of the L’Equipe channel.
“I received a phone call to tell me that it was not going to happen. It was complicated, he added. I’ve been on the team for six years, everyone knows I’m leaving, but that’s cycling. We’re just numbers, pawns. That’s kind of how I see it. It makes us realize that management sometimes has to make difficult decisions. I was shot at the time but I have since pulled myself together. I want to take advantage of all the work that has been done this summer by trying to do something by the end of the season. »
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