UAE Team Emirates is approaching the Volta a Catalunya with a strategy that highlights both Adam Yates and Juan Ayuso as its primary General Classification candidates. With Ayuso currently positioned fifth and Yates close behind, team manager Joxean Fernández Matxin emphasizes the importance of having multiple top contenders rather than relying on a single leader. Despite Tadej Pogačar's dominance when racing, both Yates and Ayuso are seen as crucial players in this mountain phase, demonstrating the team's versatile strategy in chasing the title.
Adam is getting there and steadily improving, as he always does, and Juan is in a formidably good condition. The truth is the situation is good for both of them.
When Tadej [Pogačar] is racing, obviously he's the sole leader for us. But here Juan is clearly a leader here because of his condition, and Adam's co-leader as well.
I think the way cycling is raced these days, it's important for a team to have various top names, not just one, as contenders.
If Adam has a chance, he'll take it, and if Juan has that chance, he'll take it too. But the leader here, and always, is UAE Team Emirates.
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