Despite wearing the yellow jersey of the race leader and leading both the sprint and mountain classifications after four stages, BMC’s Rohan Dennis continues to insist that he did not come to the USA Pro Challenge to ride for the overall win.
“To be honest, I tried to flick myself every single day,” he said on Thursday after winning stage 4 and taking the yellow jersey from teammate Brent Bookwalter in Breckenridge.
“The first day I went on the attack with 40k to go and then 20k,” he said. “The second day I rode from the bottom to the top of the final climb thinking that people were going to attack and I’d get dropped. Yesterday I rode from 35k to go up Independence Pass and down to the finish with a little help from Mr. [Michael] Schär. Today was just go up the climb as hard as I could.
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“So to be honest, I wasn’t planning on riding GC here. It just happens to be that I’ve stepped up a couple of levels over the last couple of years and the altitude doesn’t affect me as much.”
Dennis’ admission was a tough pill to swallow for Hincapie Racing’s Robbie Squire, who finished third on Thursday and is currently third overall behind Dennis and BMC’s Brent Bookwalter. He joked about it during the post-race press conference.
“Honestly, it kind of hurts to hear Rohan say he didn’t come here with any GC ambitions and then just smashes everybody,” Squire said. “It’s a little belittling, but that’s OK.”
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