Higuita: “We came with a good payroll to the tour”

Sergio Higuita has good feelings for the Astana team in the Tour de France will go from July 5 to 27.

His 2025 start was complex for health issues and some falls that lined their performance on the bicycle. In the last month he recovered energy and was selected to compete on the French routes.

“This year at the beginning I was a little sick, then the fall but after Romandía and the Dauphine we have been fine, the level comes better and better, we come motivated, in good condition,” he told AM850.

Astana will compete with victory pressure because it needs points to recover in the UCI classification.

“The numbers are very good, The team trusts us, we came with a good payroll, very versatile of sprinters, climbers to find a stage, it is idealIt is the goal of us, to escape, look for stages, “Higuita added.

It will be the second Colombian of training. He will have the Huilense Harold Tejada, also recovered from an injury in his hand by a fall three weeks ago in the Dauphine.