Team Sky leader Chris Froome is considering racing the Vuelta a España for a third straight year in 2016, after the Tour de France and the Olympic Games, confirmed the team's sports director Nico Portal.
Speaking to Cyclingnews before stage 7 of the Volta a Catalunya, Portal said, “He’s thinking it over. It’s not a pre-season objective but it’s a race he likes a lot.
“It’s like the Volta a Catalunya: he likes to do it, the level is very high, and in the Vuelta a España the weather’s almost always very good. That all suits him.”
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At this point in time, though, the main interest point for Sky is Froome’s form as he builds to the Tour de France, and according to Portal as he looks towards July “he’s going very well and we’re really happy with his condition right now.
“Compared to last year at this point in time, when he was ill”- and lost over half an hour of one stage of the Volta - “he’s doing fine. He’s in good shape, and he’s been training well.”
With many more top names in this year’s Volta, the Catalan race was a critical test given the depth of the opposition present and Froome’s spell of six weeks away from racing, and as Portal sees it, “all he’s lacking is the top-end speed, which comes with greater competition.
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