With three second places at the 2015 Tour de France, Cannondale-Garmin is determined to arrive in Paris with at least one stage win to its name. After finishing runner up to Simon Geschke (Giant-Alpecin) on the Pra Loup summit finish, Andrew Talansky again chanced his luck for the American team on stage 18 to St-Jean-de-Maurienne, finishing ninth in a demonstration of the team's ambition and drive for victory.
Cannondale-Garmin had placed its triumvirate of Talansky, Dan Martin and Ryder Hesjedal in the 29-man breakaway with the goal of stage victory as the team’s sole focus on general classification has ended following a collective jour sans on La Pierre Saint-Martin.
For Talansky, today was no 'revenge mission' for his close call yesterday but simply a repeat dosage of the team’s tactics in the final week of the Tour.
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"No revenge, just continuing the approach we’ve taken in this last week and now with myself, Ryder and Dan off the front and up the road is a pretty good scenario," Talansky said after cooling down at the team bus. "We didn’t come out in the wind but like we’ve said, today was about trying and that’s what today about."
Along with Martin and Hesjedal, Talansky reiterated he is confident the team can deliver a stage win by Paris on Sunday.
"With myself, Dan and Ryder, I think we still have a good chance and we are still going to keep trying definitely and that’s what we said yesterday and we tried yesterday, we tried again today and we have two more days at the Tour to try again," he added.
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