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RSS FeedsCummings still with one hurdle to jump for Tour de France selection
(Cyclingnews.com)

 
 

24 june 2017 23:29:29

 
Cummings still with one hurdle to jump for Tour de France selection
(Cyclingnews.com)
 


Stephen Cummings` return to racing went better than he could have imagined, with his first ever national time trial title. The Briton beat defending champion Alex Dowsett by just nine seconds on a challenging Isle of Man course on Thursday evening. The victory is the first hurdle in the two-jump race for Cummings as he aims to make Dimension Data`s Tour de France squad. The second will be Sunday`s road race, and the usually calm and collected Cummings is feeling the pressure. `I feel like I`ve got two more hurdles to jump over to get into the Tour,` Cummings told Cyclingnews ahead of the time trial. `It`s quite a lot of pressure, and it`s quite hard to do it when you`re not 100 per cent, and you have no choice really because you just feel at this stage a week makes a whole lot of difference. After 10 days in the Tour, it would be a different thing, but we are where we are, and we just have to do what we have to do.ADVERTISEMENT `It`s definitely not a certainty. It`s still in the balance at the moment. I have to prove myself these two days.` Cummings` season got turned on its head when he crashed heavily at the Vuelta al Pais Vasco in April. The incident on stage 4 of the Spanish race resulted in fractures to his left collarbone, scapula and his sternum. It was a setback, but nothing too major and, after surgery, he was back on his bike again. He was on the path to recovery when another crash put him back to square one, and he rode for almost three weeks before further examination showed that his scapula had moved and he would require yet more surgery. The second setback was much tougher than the first, and it wasn`t just his ability to ride his bike that it impacted. `I couldn`t really do anything. I couldn`t get off the couch, I was all twisted up, and then slowly I got better,` he explained. `At times you don`t think that you`re going anywhere, but then you think `a week ago I couldn`t do this or that`. Not yet 100 per cent You can ...


 
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