After a two-year absence from Paris-Nice, Ian Boswell will return next week to the race that finishes in his adopted French hometown on the roads where he trains.
Boswell last competed in the eight-day stage race in 2013, his first year with Team Sky, when he was a fresh-faced 22-year-old coming off two seasons with Axel Merckx's US development teams. Now 25 and with three full seasons at Team Sky and a podium finish in a stage of the Vuelta a Espana under his belt, Boswell is looking forward to another shot at the first WorldTour stage race of the season.
“It's a nice race,” Boswell told Cyclingnews recently with no hint of understatement. “It's something I kind of dream of, maybe one day doing Paris-Nice to win. It finishes in and around all the roads I train on all the time.”
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The 25-year-old American started his season in Australia, where he was part of Team Sky wins with Peter Kennaugh at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and a one-two overall finish with Chris Froome and Kennaugh at the Herald and Sun Tour.
From there, Boswell went to South Africa with Team Sky leader and two-time Tour de France winner Froome for an intense one-on-one training block that not only pushed Boswell to his physical limits, but also provided insight into how one of the world's top riders comports himself off the bike.
“The thing with Chris is that while he's a star in the sport now, he's such a down-to-earth and easy-going guy. He's super genuine,” Boswell told Cyclingnews in a phone call from South Africa last week. “On a couple of easy days we've gone into town here or had a picnic and he's not pretentious at all. He's just so mellow. He's the same guy he's always been.
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