Emotions were mixed for Cannondale-Garmin on stage 5 of the Tour de Pologne, the first mountainous day of the seven-stage race so far.
On the one hand they had two riders in Davide Formolo and Moreno Moser who were heavily involved at the sharp end of the race, maintaining their presence in the lead group as it became increasingly select over the final climbs. Formolo, who himself attacked from that group and was alone with Fabio Aru for a short while, moved up to third on GC for his efforts.
However, hopes of a stage win went out of the window as Moser cramped up with a couple of kilometres to go, and he now has little chance of regaining the overall title he won in 2012.
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“We are definitely happy, but also a little bit disappointed because we could have done better” sports director Fabrizio Guidi told Cyclingnews at the team bus in Zakopane after the stage.
"It was disappointing not to get the stage win, because I was confident for the final –with both of them but I guess mostly for Moreno. Against those other guys in a fast final, he could have won. But with the job those two did, that the team did, we are very happy. Tomorrow is another day – I’m sure we’ll have two guys up there fighting tomorrow. ”
Moser, whose first win of the season came at the Tour of Austria last month, played down his chances of another overall victory in Poland, stressing that a stage win was probably his best bet. He won’t get a better chance than today on what was a slightly uphill drag to the line as opposed to an out-and-out finishing climb like Friday’s stage 6.
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