Benoot: It's going to be tempting to take part in as many races as possible
Belgian Sunweb rider looking ꦓfor big win during resc🐻heduled second half of season

Belgium's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tiesj Benoot (Sunweb) says that he's looking for another big victory this season when, and if, the racing restarts later this year. The 26-year-old 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:won a stage – and finished second overall – at Paris-Nice in March, but will now aim at a stage win at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France and at a one-day Classics victory.
"The team had never really wanted me to ride for the general classification at the Tour this year, and I think that's going to remain the case," he told on a Facebook Live interview on Wedn🍸esday.
"It's even better that that's the case this year when the Classics have been 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:rescheduled to immediatel🍎y ♏follow the Tour, and so I donꦉ't want to finish the Tour completely ex🧜hausted," Benoot said.
"If you want to ride those Classics, the Tour de France is the only [Grand Tour] option," he continued. "The Giro d'Italia [October 3-25] coincides with the Flemish and Walloon🧸 Classics, and th🎀e Vuelta a España [October 20-November 8] starts too late.
"It's going to be tempting to take part in as many races as possible, but it's actually two months from the start of the Tour [August 29] to Paris-Roubaix [Octobe🃏r 25], and that's a long time to try to stay in top condition.
"But I'll leave it [my programme] up to the team to decide. Whatever happens, it's going to be possibl꧅e to race a big Classic each week."
The revised UCI calendar is set to kick off with Strade Bianche on August 🗹1 – a race that Benoot won in wet and muddy conditions in 2018, and is keen to do well at again.
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"I hope that Strade also fits on my programme," he said. "🌜That should work. But now that the race is in the middle of the summer instead of March, it probably won't suit me as well.
"In Tuscany [in August] it will easily be 30°C to 35°, which me🧜ans we'll probably get a really dusty edition, rather than a muddy race. But I'm not going to be put off by that. I have to be able to handle a race li💜ke that in any kind of conditions."
Benoot said tha꧑t he was also looking forward to Liège-Bastogne-Liège, which has been postponed until October 4.
"That's🐻 two weeks after the end of the Tour de France, and I normally come out of a Grand Tour well," he said. "And the chance of bad weather is greater in October than in April, so that could be good for me, too. I also think that it's great that the Tour of Flanders [October 18] falls after the Ardennes Classics for once. That create🧜s a completely different approach, and makes the challenge very special."
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