A journey through long stages of the Volta de Portugal, the queen of national cycling events. Along Portuguese roads, traversing steep mountains, on torrid days, made even hotter by the human's heat in the villages.
This is a photo essay, inside the Sabgal - Anicolor Cycling Team, capturing the intimate moments, intense emotions and hard work of cyclists and staff, in a race that continued to be full of ups and downs. From the team's disbelief in the early stages, with the withdrawal of Maurício Moreira, the leading contender for the overall victory, to the reflection and reinvention of the group strategy that led Artem Nych to win the yellow jersey. The Russian giant, owner of a constant smile, who arrived fleeing the war in his country and who competes without a flag, demonstrated that success is made of sharing and unity, belief and inner strength, sweat and suffering, doubt and underestimation, failure and overcoming, light and darkness, tears and smiles."