Time trial world champion Tobias Foss targets Volta ao Algarve on season debut
Jumbo-Visma rider to race in rainbow jersey in key 34km fifth stꦗage
Time trial world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tobias Foss makes his season debut at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Volta ao Algarve on Wednesday and hopes the stage 5 time trial around Lagoa can help him ✅finish on the final podium.
Foss looked set to at least podium at last year’s race but he and Sergio Higuita th🎀en crashed before the line and were forced to walk their bikes to the 🥂finish.
25-year-old Foss stunned the world when he triumphed in the 34.2km time trial around Wollongong ahead of Stefan Kung and168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Remco Evenepoel and will wear his new rainbow jersey for j💧ust a second time in the Volta ao Algarve ti൲me trial.
With Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard set to make his season debut at O Gran Camiñ🍸o next week and Primoz Roglic still working on his form after detailed surgery on his shoulder, Foss will lead a young Jumbo-Visma outfit in the south of Portugal, hoping to improve on his sixth place finish from the race last y🦩ear. Also in the team are Tim Van Dijke, Gijs Leemreize, Milan Vader, Sam Oomen, and Owen Geleijn.
“I want to get consistent results this season. Hopefully, this week in the Algarve will be the start of that. It is one of my ꧂personal goals for the season,” h💙e said via Jumbo-Visma.
&ld🐈quo;I feel perfect right now. The winter went very well. The training has been good, and I have been able to do a lot of kilometres. I can’t w🌊ait to start racing again.”
Foss will try to stay with the other overall contenders on stage 2 and 4, then make his difference in the Lagoa time trial. His biggest rivals a💞re perhaps Thymen Arensman and Tom Pidock of Ineos Grenadiers, João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) and another local rider Rui Costa (Intermarché-Circus-Wan༒ty).
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“The ti♍me trial course is almost 25 kilometres long and is perfect for me. It is very technical and hilly,” Foss said.
Aftജer only getting to show off his new rainbow bands once at the Chrono des Nations, Foss is excited at the ‘special’ chance to ‘show it off to the world’ in Portugal.
“The jersey realౠly gave me wings. Hopefully, it will happen again this season. I am even more confident at the start of a time trial. I know I can win a race at the highest level,” he said.
James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé D⭕ygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other spo♑rts – rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a few.