Nibali: 'The leader is Ion Izagirre'

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The "Shark of Messina", winner of the Vuelta 2010, will not exercise this time the captaincy of the team and will focus on recovering and preparing the World Cup in Innsbruck.

 

The Italian Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain), one of the seven riders in the winning history of the big three, arrives at the Vuelta a España with the idea of recovering from his recent operation of vertebral fracture produced in the Tour de France, so announces that he will delegate the stripes to his colleague Ion Izagirre.

"I feel better but I'm short on preparation, I've trained 20 days and only one week at a good level, until last week I've had pain, it's my first race after the Tour and the operation and I do not know how I'm going to find, I will have to see it with the passing of the day, "said Nibali at the press conference held in Malaga.

 

The "Shark of Messina", winner of the Vuelta 2010, will not exercise this time the captaincy of the team and will focus on recovering and preparing the World Cup in Innsbruck: "The captain of the team is Ion Izagirre, and I will try to make a good race The route is nice, it adapts well to climbers, it is hard, but I do not know how I will respond when the demanding stages arrive. "

On the favorites he said he has not followed the rivals, but believes that "Nairo Quintana and French Pinot" are among the great candidates.