Pro cycling teams such as Visma, RedBull – Bora, Bahrain, Astana, Ineos, Groupama, etc, have all trained here, and it was on the island´s smooth, sun-baked roads that Team Sky´s Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome sculpted their Tour de France successes.
On his personal website, Froome wrote: “kilometre after kilometre of twisty uphill the road snaked up into the clouds taking us to what I would imagine travelling to Mars would be like, black volcanic rocks and undulating heaps of sand and shrubs surrounded us”
Wiggins has declared: “there is not other environment that can beat Mount Teide. We have altitude, heat and virtually empty roads most days”