Luke Rowe believes that it’s only a matter of time before Team Sky win their first monument, and that it could be in 2016. Since 2010, the team have amassed victories in many of the year’s biggest races but success at one of the five major one-day races has remained elusive.
"Every year we say next year but it is only a matter of time. The riders are there and on any given day we can win a monument with a number of riders. It’s just waiting for that day for everything to come together and the stars to align," Rowe tells Cyclingnews. "We’re knocking on that door. Every year we’re winning a couple of classics which is no mean feat. I think it’s only a matter of time and hopefully it’s next year but if not then we’ll crack on."
Rowe, who has become an integral part of Sky’s Classics line-up, is speaking to Cyclingnews just days before he heads back off to Monaco to begin training for the 2016 season. The 25-year-old has been spending time at home with his family in Wales for the past month after finishing his season at the World Championships in Richmond at the end of September.
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"I think we definitely rode the best that we’ve ever ridden," Rowe says of this year’s Classics campaign. "We rode on the front and we weren’t afraid to take them on."
The British team ended the spring with victories at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad with Ian Stannard and E3 Harelbeke with Geraint Thomas, who also took a podium place at the wind-battered Gent-Wevelgem. They went into both the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix as race favourites and, although they missed out on top placing in both, Rowe pulled out a strong performance to give them eighth at Roubaix - a major milestone in his development and one that has given him a thirst for more.
"I would like to try and step it up another level in the Classics next year," says Rowe. "It’s hard to go into a race with Team Sky, with the Classics line-up that we’ve got - in Stannard and G [Thomas] - as a leader. But certainly in some of the smaller ones and the semi-classics, I’d like to go in as joint leader and have a chance there. That being said, I’m one of the first guys to put my hand up to help the boys and I don’t mind doing that. It would definitely be nice to have a go at the Classics and have a bit of a free rein and see what I can do."
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