João Rodrigues, winner in 2019, will be the last of the 98 cyclists enrolled in the special edition of the Volta a Portugal starting for the prologue that marks the start of the race, today, in Fafe.
The W52-FC Porto runner will start defending the title he won last year at 17:20, one minute after José Neves (Burgos BH), the penultimate to go on the road.
enter the names big, o too Dragon Amaro Antunes, second in the Volta a Portugal in 2017, is the first to go out on the road, at 16:52 pm, with Frederico Figueiredo, the leader of the General-Tavira-Maria Nova Hotel Tuna, starting his individual exercise eight minutes later.
The other candidates will succeed in the fight against the chronometer in the streets of Fafe: Ricardo Vilela (Burgos BH) leaves at 17:05 pm and the Galician Gustavo Veloso (W52-FC Porto), winner in 2014 and 2015, leaves a minute later.
This is followed by João Benta (Rádio Popular-Boavista), Joaquim Silva (Miranda-Mortágua), Miguel Salgueiro (LA Alumínios-LA Sport), Henrique Casimiro (Kelly-Simoldes-UDO), Rafael Reis (Fairense), Joni Brandão (Efapel ) and the Spaniards Vicente García de Mateos (Aviludo-Louletano) and Alejandro Marque (Tuna General-Tavira-Maria Nova Hotel), all separated by a minute.
However, it is David Rodrigues (Rádio Popular-Boavista) who will have the honor of inaugurating the special edition of Volta a Portugal, organized by the Portuguese Cycling Federation, with the runner checkered to start the prologue of seven kilometers, starting at Parque da Cidade and arriving at Praça 25 de Abril, at 15:43.
The premier event on the national calendar will connect Fafe to Lisbon, with a total of 1.183,9 kilometers, spread over a prologue and eight stages, to be disputed until 5 October, by 98 cyclists, from 14 teams, in a reduced format, resulting from the pandemic of Covid-19.
On Saturday, João Salgado's new coronavirus positive ruled the Portuguese team out of the race, as determined by Anadia's health delegate, where the representatives of the national team were training.
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