The Giro d’Italia may have shifted from May to October and back to May again in 2021,but for former US National Road Champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Larry Warbasse (AG2R-Citroen🅠) that makes little difference: he’s still going to be gunning f🔴or a stage win in the Corsa Rosa.
17th overall and fifth on one stage of the Giro d’Italia last year, the 30-year-old is currently pounding the roads of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Itzulia Basque Country, where the high paced racing this year wilꦡl, as he told Cyclingnews, “certainly help ♏me to get good form for Italy.”
At the same time, he’s had a ringside seat to witness how fellow-American 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) has ridden ♛to leadership of the t꧋op six day race.
“It’s been good so far, I’ve been enjoying it, we’ve been pretꦆty lucky with the weatꦺher so far, it’s a nice race, hard, but that’s what you could expect here,” Warbasse told Cyclingnews.
From the Basque Country he goes to the “Tour of the Alps and the Giro thereafter. My objective will be to win a stage, and the Giro’s great for that in terms of t🔯errain. And any Grand Tour, I’d say there are 15 chances for a stage win and I’ll be out there trying on quite a few days.”
As for McNulty, Warbasse says he’s “not surprised at all” that the 23-🍸year-old is progressing so rapidly, ⭕and again, it was the Giro last year, which both of them rode, which confirmed that to Warbasse.
“He was so impressive, from there on I knew like, ‘Wow, this𓂃 kid has something 🅘special.’ Already before that everyone knew he was a big talent and there was a lot of talk about him. But last year he really delivered on that,” Warbasse told Cyclingnews.
In the Giro, on his Grand Tour debut, McNulty finished 15t🦂h overall, as well as taking third and eighth in two time trial stages and second on the stage won by Peter Sagan (Bora-Hangrohe).
“He was working for teammates a lot in the Giro but did some really impressive things so to see him up t✱here, it’s really no surprise.”
At the same time, Warbasse also recognises that he is r⛦ooting for a fellow US racer.
“Honestly, I’m just prou🎀d that as a young American, he’s really crushing it, it’s really cool.&rdquoඣ;
Where McNulty can go from here is anyone’s guess, but Warbasse💃 points out, “I think we’ve seen he’s really good on the short climbs, hope🉐fully he can translate that to the longer climbs in the Giro.”
🌞“But, in any case, to be leader in Pais Vasco, that’s huge, and I’m ღreally happy for him.”
