{"id":677563,"date":"2026-01-06T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677563\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:24:12","slug":"ayusos-new-teammate-praises-the-spanish-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677563\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayuso’s new teammate praises the Spanish star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I remember my first training camp with Lidl-Trek: we were more than 100 people and it already felt like an incredible number. Today we would be at least double that. It\u2019s incredible to see new faces and at the same time notice how every department keeps expanding and how we continue to take steps forward.”<\/p>\n

That growth, he explained, comes despite already operating at a very high level when he arrived to the team. \u201cWe were already starting from a really high level, so it\u2019s not even easy to improve when you\u2019re close to the limit. But the team is managing to do it, and doing it well. Here the work is organised by sectors and everyone has dedicated staff. That\u2019s nice, because it gives you more and more motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a personal level, Mosca believes he has been substantially improving. The problem is that everyone else has been doing the same, sometimes faster than him.\u00a0\u201cThe problem is that the others are improving as well. Honestly, I wouldn\u2019t know how to measure it in numbers: maybe in training you do values you didn\u2019t do years ago, or compared to my first year as a professional today I do numbers that would have been unthinkable.”<\/p>\n

“With the values from ten years ago, today you wouldn\u2019t even start a race. Then you also have to consider what numbers we\u2019re talking about, because for a rider with my characteristics, a domestique, short-duration numbers have always been quite similar. And to be honest, I don\u2019t even pay that much attention to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mosca has three professional wins, all of them in China<\/p>\n

Ayuso as his new teammate and Mosca’s plans for 2026One of the main stories of the off-season was Juan Ayuso’s transfer to Lidl-Trek<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cTo be honest, I haven\u2019t ridden much with him, but from the way he moves you can see that he has integrated well. We\u2019re such a good group that it\u2019s hard not to integrate. Juan seems like a guy who knows how to get along with others: I had already seen him a few months ago in Germany, during the pre-camp. Then we\u2019ll see when the pressure comes, when we\u2019re fully into racing. That\u2019s when we\u2019ll all know more. I don\u2019t like listening too much to what others say: I want to see what he does here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to his programme, Mosca confirmed a couple of races he will be riding.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ll go to Australia in a few days, then the rest is still quite open. But I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019ll do Milano-Sanremo, because\u00a0I have a special relationship with that race. I hope to be there, but above all I think I\u2019ll be there and I think I\u2019ll be strong. The Classicissima is a race I like, I have a good feeling with it. Maybe I\u2019ll have to spend 250 kilometres on the front pulling\u2026 and it wouldn\u2019t even be the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Mosca reflected on how the domestique\u2019s job has evolved, particularly in the post-Covid era. “A lot. Before, you would pull for 150\u2013200 kilometres and then the race would start and I would move aside. Today the same race explodes at 100 kilometres from the finish. It seems like a domestique \u2018only\u2019 works for about a hundred kilometres, but those are a hundred kilometres where you have to position or pull.” <\/p>\n

“Then there\u2019s a small climb, the fight starts and you can\u2019t let go. You have to be ready, you always have to stay close to the race. And here we go back to what we said before: improvement, being present regardless of the numbers. Today a domestique has to be much more complete than in the past,” he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I remember my first training camp with Lidl-Trek: we were more than 100 people and it already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,205850,184916,20358,181899,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-677563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-jacopo-mosca","10":"tag-juan-ayuso","11":"tag-lidl-trek","12":"tag-milano-sanremo","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115847906139475467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677563","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=677563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}