As a 26-year-old in his third full season racing on the Continental level, Canadian Matteo Dal-Cin is itching to test himself against the sport`s best. Dal-Cin got a glimpse at the top level last September while representing the Canadian National Team at the WorldTour races in Quebec City and Montreal, infiltrating a six-rider breakaway in Montreal with teammate Ben Perry and then helping Perry win the climbers` classification before Dal-Cin had to abandon with two laps remaining. `It was a fantastic experience racing in the front,` Dal-Cin told his hometown paper, the Ottawa Citizen, afterward. `To be up front in a race of that calibre, you see how teams operate and how the most powerful teams dictate how it goes.`ADVERTISEMENT His pursuit of more opportunities to compete against the best, especially in Europe, led Dal-Cin to move in the offseason from the Canadian Silber team to Rally Cycling, which is currently competing in Europe and will start the Volta ao Alentejo in Portugal later this week. `The opportunity to race in Europe was super appealing to me,` Dal-Cin told Cyclingnews during a January training camp in Southern California. `It`s just a bigger program, not to knock Silber, but there`s definitely more opportunities to get to the bigger races here. `That`s something that I really wanted to accomplish, getting over there and doing some UCI races,` he said. `This will be my first opportunity for that.` Putting it all together for Redlands win Finding out how far he can go
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