@Cycling @Ciclismo 77th Tour of @Portugal Future stars

 

Joni Brandão (2.º), António Carvalho (6.º), Amaro Antunes (10.º) e Frederico Figueiredo (14.º).

Newspaper article
http://www.record.xl.pt/modalidades/ciclismo/volta-a-portugal/2015/detalhe/o-futuro-e-deles-967994.html

Joni Brandao (2), António Carvalho (6), Amaro Antunes (10) and Frederico Figueiredo (14). They are young - the first two aged 25, the other 24 - and it is them who are the future of our cycling, can reign in the Tour of Portugal and impose itself on the world squad. Were among the 15 winners and the prospects are encouraging when it comes to conquer the yellow jersey and allow the Portuguese re-send the race national queen.

"Will they and others like them the protagonists future of the Tour of Portugal. It is good so be it. These halls have long been identified by us were part of National Selections", says the president of the Portuguese Cycling Federation (FPC) Delmino Pereira, for whom the national queen race needs new Portuguese heroes. "It's very important that they are the protagonists of the Tour, as this year's Joni Brandao. It is vital that the future will always be young to win, so the proof is a launching pad abroad and in order to have a better life . "

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But the Tour of Portugal, curiously, has not been the launching pad for some of the cyclists who run abroad. And contrary to what said the race director, Joaquim Gomes, Rui Costa, for example, be made known to the world through this race, but the U-23 National Team. It is the rider of Lampre never got to dispute it and not to believe that it will do so as quickly ... Probably never will.

Already Sérgio Paulinho, that went out of the Portuguese squad after being Olympic runner-up in Atenas'2004 and not exactly for being tenth in the Tour that year. Tiago Machado and André Cardoso also never won the race.

But whether in Portugal or abroad, there is little doubt that, for now, Joni Brandao, Antonio Carvalho, Amaro Antunes and Frederico Figueiredo, particularly these are the faces of the future. Other Portuguese have also finished the race in the top 15, some in their 30s and others have to reach the 40: Rui Sousa (5), Sérgio Sousa (7), Daniel Silva (8) Hernani Broco (9), Virgílio Santos (12) and Hugo Sancho (15).

But the story of recent years has said that the experience  of Gustavo Veloso, for example, got the bis and 35 years old.