Zdenek Stybar (Etixx-QuickStep) climbed on the stage 2 podium at Tirreno-Adriatico in Pomerance so many times that the local crowd were happy when his teammate Bob Jungels appeared to collect the best young rider’s white jersey.
Stybar made four appearances on the podium, as stage winner, to collect the race leader’s blue jersey, the red points jersey and the green mountain classification jersey.
He took them with his solo attack in the hilly finale of the stage to Pomerance and thanks to a ten-second time bonus, he now leads Tirreno-Adriatico by nine seconds, ahead of Greg Avermaet and Tejay van Garderen of BMC. More importantly he showed his Classics rivals that he is on form as the days tick down to Milan-San Remo and the cobbled Classics of northern Europe.
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“I think its very important to win but most of all it’s important to be in good shape,” Stybar explained in the post-race press conference.
“You could see that Cancellara is in top shape, than Greg van Avermaet is on top shape and that Sagan is very, very good, Edvald Boasson Hagen, too. It’s very important to win in front of the Classics for your own confidence, too. I knew after Mallorca and Algarve that my form was growing in the right way.
“I trained very hard this winter and for the first time in my life that I was struggling between training and going into over training after Algarve. I was training so hard that I was on the limit. There were times when I couldn’t imagine to train for extra minute. Fortunately I’ve recovered from the hard effort of Strade Bianche and so I’ve got some freshness in my legs now. I knew that my shape would come up.”
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