It says a lot that the headlines and social media interest stemming from Movistar's team presentation on Thursday were dominated not by their riders and their 2022 goals but by the news that their hit docume🗹ntary series would return fo🧜r a third series.
The team themselves ensured this was the case, releasing a trailer for the much-anticipated new instalment of 'El Día Menos Pensado' – or 'The Least Expected Day – at the same time the likes of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alejandro Valverde and Annemiek van Vleuten were sharing their objecti🎃ves for the 2022 s꧃eason.
Having shot to fame by shining a light on the occasionally shambolic inner workings of the Spanish team – notably the tensions between Nairo Quintana, Mikel Landa, and Marc Soler – the new series will give the fans exactly what they want: the inside story of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Miguel Ángel López's sensational exit from the 2021 Vuelta a España.
In the aftermath of the Colombian's controversial decision to stop mid-way through the penultimate stage🦹 of the Vuelta both parti🧔es reportedly signed a non-disclosure agreement as they parted ways just a few weeks later.
However, in the trailer for the new series, López is seen sitti💛ng down for an interview, saying: "I wanted to come out and give my version of events."
The show is 🍒also set to offer a behind-the-scenes look at how that dramatic situation 🍃unfolded, with cameras in the team car and microphones picking up their race radio.
"I'm stopping here. Many thanks, brothers," López is heard staying as he wheels to a halt, the directeur sportif in the team car shocked by his decision꧋.
Despite winning the queen stage just two days previously and sitting third overall, López had been cau💃ght out by a split in the GC group, with his father claiming he was ordered to stop chasing so as not do any supposed harm to teammate Enric Mas, who was second overall.
Either way, López decided to do✨wn tools and hop into a team car.
"Right, I'm s𝄹topping here," López repea꧙ts at the end of the trailer. "It was a pleasure, gentlemen."
After showing the tra🎀iler, the presenters at the Movistar event fell about laughing, and it seems that López himself, who has s✤ince moved to Astana, has taken it all in good humour, too. A few hours later he posted a picture of himself on a training ride in the mountains, incorporating the 'I'm stopping here' quote into a hashtag.
"From this beautiful plဣace, I can say: #YoMeQuedoPorAquí (#I'mstoppinghere)," López wrote.
The third series of El Día Menos Pensado is set to also cover Movistar's 2021 seaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚson as a whole, including their women's team, with Annemiek van Vleuten winning the Tour of Flanders amid a highly successful debut campaign on the Spanish squad.
A release date has not yet been announced but we have the popcorn ready♏.
