Then I didn’t have the legs anymore for the last climb. 18 4 PRO CYCLING MANAGER 2020(PC) 5 I’ve had the best climber’s jersey at the Giro but it felt...
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19 I feel good but I have to be exceptionally good tomorrow. 24 As a team, we live this Tour like above a cloud. born on 24/11/1993 born on 11/03/1994 Geraint Thomas is more of a specialist than him. 19 19 A total of 176 riders from 22 teams participated in the race. 1 Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal) has said he expects Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) to challenge him for the King of the Mountains classification at the The Belgian has held the polka dot jersey since stage three, after getting in the day’s break and sweeping up KoM points during his time off the front.Since then the 28-year-old has continued to animate the race, placing himself in moves or getting team-mates to challenge potential competitors for points in what has been a clear indication that he intends to fight for the jersey all the way to Paris.However, as the race heads into the mountains, and the points available at summits massively increase as the peloton takes on HC-category climbs, purer climbers than the Belgian will become interested in challenging Wellens and taking the jersey off of his shoulders.On stage 14, Wellens once again got himself up the road, targeting the category one Col du Soulor to try and limit his losses, before the GC contenders took over and battled for the 40 KoM points available at the top of the Tourmalet’s summit finish.However, Nibali had attacked from the flag drop, getting himself in the break alongside Wellens, sticking with him until 400m to the summit of the Soulor until the Belgian rode the Italian off his wheel to take maximum points.There are still many mountains and KoM points available before the Champs-Élysées, though, and Wellens expects Nibali to be one of his main challengers for the prize.“Nibali is now a clear candidate for the KoM,” Wellens said, “I already said yesterday that I’d target the Soulor only and it worked out. 19 Sometimes it takes an hour. 21
- 10/07 - 18:39 13 3 4 7 7 His best results are 2x GC Eneco Tour, 1st place in GC Tour de Pologne and 1st place in Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal. 21 17 born on 10/05/1991 9 Interview Interview - 18/07 - 17:32
But today I realized pretty quickly that we wouldn’t make it, so I focused on the KOM points and I succeeded.