A cyclist shows striking effects on his legs during the Giro de Italia 2019

The Spanish cyclist José Joaquín Rojas del Movistar, through a publication in his Instagram account, showed how his legs were suffering in the midst of the difficult Giro de Italia 2019.

In the photo, you can see the muscular legs of the 33-year-old cyclist, swollen with swollen veins. "The 13th stage of the Giro d 'Italia, prepared for the war, is not it?", Commented on Rojas' commentary on the competition, which will cover 3,789 kilometers in 21 stages this year. .

However, according to specialists, the inflamed veins shown by Rojas are not unusual for high-level cyclists. The phenomenon was described earlier this year in the British magazine Cycling Weekly. This is the result of training, which offers cyclists an "increased supply of oxygenated blood to the muscles and extraction of deoxygenated blood through the veins, heart and lungs".

This process causes larger dimensions in the veins so that they can satisfy this extra demand for blood and oxygen. In the case of Rojas, they would have inflated after their considerable efforts in the Giro d'Italia.

The Spanish cyclist ranks 41st with 55 hours, 1 minute and 2 seconds, while fellow Movistar Mikel Landa is in 8th position with 54 hours, 34 minutes and 7 seconds. Slovakia's Jan Polanc, from the United Arab Emirates, and Russia's Ilnur Zakarin, of the Swiss Katusha-Alpecin team, won the 13th stage and are currently in 3rd place.

The stage of this "war", to which Rojas refers, was the 13th, which was disputed this Friday between Pinerolo and Reale Ceresole, 196 kilometers and with several mountain pbades.

The 14th edition will be held Saturday between St. Vincent and Courmayeur and will have 131 kilometers: a very intense alpine stage, with four hard ports on a little more than 100 kilometers.

RT.