2023-05-06 04:05:00
“Yes, it’s an objective to enter this circle of riders who have won on the three Grand Tours. I have done a good part of the work, two thirds, I have one third left, ”said the 31-year-old Breton climber on Friday on the eve of the start.
With his two victories on the roads of the Vuelta in 2013 and two others on those of the Tour de France in 2017, the Morbihannais with an attacking temperament has already made an impression.
He now dreams of shining in the Tour of Italy which he is competing for the first time, just like his Arkéa-Samsic formation, which has just risen in the World Tour, the first division of world cycling.
“I am not a sprinter. I’m not going to say it’s easier for them, but for a rider like me it’s more complicated. I hope to carry out this quest for victory, ”he added with a smile.
The Breton however does not arrive in the best conditions since he tested positive for Covid-19 just following Liège-Bastogne-Liège, which he abandoned on April 23.
“I never said to myself that it wasn’t possible, I took my time, without driving too much,” he said.
His plan is to “recover as much as possible during the first week to be on the attack for the last two weeks which promise to be epic”.
He will then try to slip into a breakaway and demonstrate his qualities as an adventurous climber.
“The Giro is a race that is always very uncertain, very open with a lot of breakaways that come to the end, that can suit me,” he insisted.
“We come to accompany him in his quest for success, that’s the basic objective”, commented his sports director, Yvon Caër who says he is “widely optimistic so that Warren can regain all his abilities”.
“The evening in Liège we wondered regarding his state of health. But I remain convinced that it was a relatively mild Covid. It will take a few days to adapt to the distance and intensity. But from the second week, it will be 100%, ”he assured.
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