{"id":155583,"date":"2025-06-03T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155583\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:30:14","slug":"ayuso-is-being-marginalized-in-a-very-childish-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155583\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayuso is being marginalized in a very childish way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juan Ayuso<\/a> is one of the most talented riders in pro cycling but also one of the most controversial, even if not necessarily by his own actions. The Spaniard is a constant topic since last year’s Tour de France, and former pro rider Thomas Dekker<\/a> doesn’t understand why the Spaniard is so heavily criticized.Ayuso abandoned the Giro d’Italia<\/a> after a lingering knee injury which saw him lose time on the first day of the Giro’s final week, combined with a bee sting which then prevented him from racing properly on stage 17. UAE Team Emirates – XRG<\/a> had Isaac del Toro in winning position throughout the entire race, and the co-leadership was a daily topic of discussion.<\/p>\n


\nThe negative situation between Juan Ayuso and UAE is evident. But the Spanish rider is being lynched too much according to pundit Thomas Dekker, in statements to In De Leiderstrui<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former Dutch pro is critical of UAE and even Tadej Pogacar for marginalizing Ayuso: “You see that Pogacar is happy when Del Toro is successful, while Ayuso is being marginalized in a very childish way. They are mature people, but it’s really very childish,” Dekker pointed out forcefully.<\/p>\n

For Dekker, who remains firm in his criticism of Tadej Pogacar, the Slovenian has a very high importance in UAE’s decision-making, and thus takes the opportunity to “isolate” him from the team:<\/p>\n

“You have to be well placed in the hierarchy to belong to a certain side. That’s very noticeable at UAE. You can see in everything that Pogacar has influence from his high-altitude training and that he is actually ruling out Ayuso,” added Thomas Dekker.<\/p>\n

Lastly, Dekker concluded his criticism by saying that Juan Ayuso should go to Movistar Team: “I think he is serious enough to prepare successfully in the Spanish team”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juan Ayuso is one of the most talented riders in pro cycling but also one of the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-155583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114621095795987137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}