Costa has high hopes for Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Portuguese rider talks to Cycling News HD




168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rui Costa is in fine form after taking his opening win of the year at Klasika Primavera just over a week ago. After some bad luck, his Movistar team are on the up and they have three options for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Costa tells Cyclingnews HD about his ambitions for La Doyenne.
CN HD: Klasika Primavera was your first vꦡictory of the season, how do you𒁏 feel?
Rui Costa: "Very happy. Like you said it was my first🃏 victory of the season and there will be many wins to follow it. Also, it was a very emotional win, because until the final metre I wasn't winning."
CN HD: What has this victory done for your confidence?
Costa: "As always it is ✱important to recover the confidence after what happened in Pari🔯s-Nice."
CN HD: It was a good weekend for the teaꦯm, did Nairo Quintanꦗa's win give you a boost?
"It was a spectacular week for the team. Nairo's victory on the Arrate stage, the general classification on Saturday and Sunday, with my win. We have been missing some luck in some of the races this year and this time it all went pe𒀰rfectly."
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CN HD: Has🐻 your crash 🍸at Paris-Nice caused you any problems?
Costa: "No it has totally recovered. It is onl♉y an inconvenience at times."
CN HD: Did it take long to recover?
Costa: "I spent a week recovering. So I came to País Vasco𓂃 with a little bit of form, but day by day I was finding it better. I ended the week very well like I demonstrated in Amorebieta."
CN HD: What were you hoping to achiev𝓀e at Paris-Nice, before the accident?
Costa: "I don't know what I could have gotten, but the truth is that I was feeling very well. In the prologue there wasn't anything that didn't suit my characteristics and I finished high up. I'm certain that the sensat﷽ions were goꦯod."
CN HD: How is your level now?
Costa:&🤡nbsp;"Good. País Vasco, like I said, was a very good point and I hope to high up there in the Classics."
CN HD: You have Liège-Bastogne-Liège very soon. You were in the top 20 last season🥀, can you improve on that?
Costa:💃 "Yes, I believe that I've shown in🔯 the last years that I continue to progress and that I can be very high up at the finish."
CN HD: With Alejandro Valverde, Quin🎐tana and yourself in the team, who will be the leader?
Costa: "Alejandro will be. He h💫as demonstrated already that he can win these races and so he will have to be the leader. We will all be witꦓh him and are prepared for if we have to change the race tactics so that we can utilize another of the team members."
CN HD: Does the team have the ability to win?
Costa: "It is very difficult, because some of🥃 the best🦋 races and there are many candidates for the win. But we are some of those and we will fight to win it."
CN HD: What is♌ it th🌌at makes a race like Liège-Bastogne-Liège so difficult?
Costa: 𓂃"It is a very long race and when you take the hardest climbs you 𝔍feel it in the legs. It is one of the best."
CN HD: After the classics, what is you༺r next💞 big objective?
Costa: "I will be racing the Tꦕour de Suisse, where I took the number one last year and after that the big ob💧jective is the Tour."
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Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surpriseꦓ when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I ♏covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.