According to the portal esmtb. com, Alejandro Valverde is thinking about competing in some gravel event, albeit in a more relaxed way. Even if the "relaxed" for an agonist like him is always difficult to decipher. Alejandro Valverde retired from professional cycling at the age of 42 and remained tied to the Movistar team with staff duties.
I would like to participate in gravel races or something like that, even if I don't know the environment very well yet. Set yourself a sporting goal and have fun. Maybe, without a lot of insistence or discipline, but my training mornings will not be touched. My main task in Movistar will be to improve communication between managers, coaches and runners. Yes, I will be in flagship in some races. I will continue to show myself at road races - Alejandro Valverde
With the arrival of the UCI Gravel World Championship, the discipline seems to have found a formula to attract cyclists from various disciplines and put them together, a bit like enduro did in the early days. But if Gravel becomes a full-fledged competitive discipline (even if it would slightly distort the typical environment of gravel that was born with an anti-competitive perspective, ed.), will lead to specialization and therefore the mix will be increasingly difficult
Some of them, like Daniel Oss, have already seen this as a way to extend their cycling activity after a professional career on the road. We'll see if Valverde will join them or not. Vincenzo Nibali would also be the perfect gravel athlete, even if he seems more interested in MTB.
