168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luis Angel Maté spent the day in the break during a miserable opening stage of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Arctic Race of Norway, his 🍃138 kilometres out front lasting until tꦐhe move was swept up with 25km left of the stage in Mo i Rana.

The Spaniard, riding his second season at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Euskaltel-Euskadi, is ramping up the preparation ahead of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España and what will be only his team's second participation in the 𝔍race.

He'll be looking to make an impact at the upꦑcoming Grand Tour, and not just to show the famous orange jersey, compete for minor prizes, and maybe scor🐓e Spain's first win there in two years.

As well as all that, 🤡the 38-year-old will be racing to repopulate the forests of Los Reales de Sierra Bermeja natural park in southern Andalucía. The natural park, which will host the stage 12 summit finish at Estepona during the Vuelta, has been hit hard by fo꧋rest fires in recent years.

Maté, who hails from nearby Marbella, has pledged to donate 100 trees to the reforestation project, and will also𝐆 donate a tree for every kilometre he rides in the breakaway.

"Sierra Bermeja – the last [fire] last year was 30,000 hectares burned," Maté told Cyclingnews at the Arctic Race of Norway. "I think right no🌼w this is the moment to act in this time with the climate crisis. I think it's the responsibility of everybody.

"For me it's very important to have something like this. Also in Spain, it's incredible the climate change with the forest fires. And I think we have the best stadium in the world, and it's all our respons𝓀ibility to care for our home.

"For that, I think about the future generation and just to give them a go༺od future. It's for that reason I do this."

Vuelta organisers Unipublic have to the project, while Euskaltel-Euskadi will do the same. Environmentally conscious Maté, who has said in the past that he only travels by bike (he rode more than 1,000km back home from last year's Vuelta𝔉) and buys from small businesses, confirmed those commitments.

"It was terrible, terrible," Maté said♛ of the fires and resulting damage. "And now one year later, it's the moment to start to repopulate. And it's the moment, at the same time with the Vuelta and the stage there, it's a very good opp🐲ortunity to show it to a lot of people.

"A lot of people, a lot of enterprises, a lot of associations - everybo🌺dy wants to help, and that's also super important for us."

Maté, who is on Euskaltel's longlist for the Vuelta but is certain to make the final eight-man selection, has raced hun🐓dreds of kilometres in the breakaway at previous editions of the Vuelta, and it's possible that he'll be responsible for plenty of new trees this autumn.

"I don't know," Maté laughed when asked about his breakaway goal. "Other years a lot of kilometres This year also is for sure one of my best motivation tꦡo make the breakaways𓆏.

"Also the Vuelta and my team puts in the same number of treꦡes as me and a lot of people want to help or buy a tree or come to us to plant. That's amazing.

"I hope that this idea can grow every day and every week of the Vuelta and finally we can do something amazing &💮ndash; a forest, a Vuelta forest."