McCarthy draws confidence from Tour Down Under showing
A stage winner and race leader earlier in the week, Jay McCarthy finished the Tour Down Under in fourth place overall and the Tinkoff rider comes away from the Australian race with his credentials bolstered.
McCarthy was an impressive winner of the uphill sprint at Stirling, anticipating Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida) in the finale, and though he slipped from second to fourth overall on Willunga Hill on the penultimate day, he declared himself pleased with his outing as team leader.
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“I knew before that I knew I had to be confident with the shape that I was in, I done a lot of hard work this off season and in the last 12 months I’ve been going in the right direction,” McCarthy said on Sunday. “It was a great experience to have the chance to lead this race, and to be the leader for our team here. I can take so much away from this race and later on I take this as confidence to hopefully go for my own chance again.”
Still only 23 years of age, McCarthy is set to line up for the third Grand Tour of his career in May, when he will be part of a Tinkoff line-up likely to be led by Rafal Majka, though he expressed hope he might have the opportunity to chase his own results in the weeks to come.
“At the start of the season I am aiming to be good at the Giro d’Italia, not possibly for my own overall but to go there and support our leader who ever that may be,” McCarthy said. “After what I’ve done this week I think there could be chances in the races that I do have on my programme.”
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