Blink twice and you might have missed it, but on stage 7 of the Volta a Catalunya, with around two laps of the hilly circuit in Montrjuic to go, there was a moment where the bright green jersey of a Cannondale rider, part of the daylong break of 12, was briefly visible on television images as he was caught by a group of counter-attackers.
Then the cameras moved back to the main peloton as the attacks rained down on race leader - and eventual winner - Nairo Quintana (Movistar) and the Cannondale rider’s group was forgotten, and finally, almost completely, swallowed up by the favourites.
However, for that rider, Ben King (Cannondale), who eventually finished an anonymous 63rd on the stage, even taking part in that day’s break represented another step forward towards recovery.
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After all the Volta a Catalunya was his first race of the season after breaking a fibula earlier this year, and a milestone on his road to full recovery.
Speaking to Cyclingnews before stage 6 of the Volta a Catalunya - and 24 hours before he made it into the day’s break on Sunday - King pointed out that, “this is a hard race to come back to, I was actually reserve for it, so watching the front group ride away from me is a hard thing to have to accept.”
But then, as King recognises, he has to be relative about such issues. As he points out, “I wasn’t supposed to be able to walk [after my crash] for eight weeks and this [stage 6] is only nine and a half or ten weeks after it, so considering that” - he adds with a fair leavening of understatement - “it’s going pretty well.”
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