Chris Froome (Sky) said he was satisfied with his first long effort of the season in the Volta a Catalunya team time trial on stage 2, where Sky claimed the third spot, 46 seconds behind winners Movistar. `Today will be more decisive than any other stage, but let`s see,` Froome said after the stage. `We`re certainly here to race, we`re not here to race for a podium, hopefully we`ll light things up at some point and go for it.` Sky`s strong performance - together with BMC`s and Trek-Segafredo`s, second and fourth - was somewhat overshadowed when the controversy surrounding Movistar and the pushes given by José Joaquín Rojas to his teammates erupted. However, Sky remain in a strong position overall, regardless of whom is in the lead, and both Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome remain among the top GC placings.ADVERTISEMENT `It was very technical out there and in a time trial of 40 kilometres, we could expect some pretty big time gaps there,` Froome told a small group of reporters after he had warmed down near the finish. Speaking before Movistar had finished - and the controversy had broken - Froome said, `But I think for me personally it`s my first big effort back at WorldTour level and it was good to be out there with the other guys. But I think it sounds like Movistar are setting the course alight and putting pretty big time deficits into everyone.` `I think we`ll have to see what the final deficits are, but we`ll see what we can do these next few days with a big mountain stage tomorrow [Wednesday] and another big one on Friday. Hopefully we`ve got a few good cards to play with myself and G [Thomas], who`s going really well on the back of Tirreno. Let`s see how the week goes.`
You can read more at Cyclingnews.com
|