Ayuso addresses Skjelmose concerns
After Mattias Skjelmose expressed uncertainty over his role with Lidl-Trek given Juan Ayuso's impending arrival, Ayuso himself said on Sunday that he can see where his future teammate is coming from.
"I can understand some parts of it," Ayuso said before the road race at the European Continental Championships, as Feltet.dk reports. "If the team has said, 'You are the leader,' I can understand a certain kind of frustration."
On the other hand, Ayuso pointed out that cycling's top teams all feature multiple star riders. Ayuso's current squad UAE Team Emirates-XRG, of course, counts on an abundance of GC riders surrounding leader Tadej Pogačar, a fact that helped spur Ayuso's decision to head elsewhere.
"It's normal if you want to be a super team that you keep signing good riders," Ayuso said. "UAE, Visma and now Red Bull have a lot of riders who are racing for the general classification. You can't be a super team and only have one rider." [Feltet.dk]
