When asked if he would sign on the dotted line now for a top five overall finish in the 2016 Vuelta a España, Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo) hesitates for perhaps one second.
Then the answer comes back loud and clear: “Nope.” Kruijswijk, in other words, is looking for another major GC performance in the Vuelta to back up his already strong Grand Tour display in the Giro d’Italia this May, and he’s not ruling anything out.
These heightened ambitions are logical, given that just a few months ago the 29-year-old completed the Giro d’Italia in fourth overall after a major crash poleaxed any chance he had of defending his overall lead, almost within sight of the finish in Turin.
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Since then, Kruijswijk has been mainly resting up and training, with his only two races the Clasica San Sebastian, where he finished a relatively anonymous 29th, and the Olympic road-race, where he took 34th.
Kruijswijk’s second goal of the season, though, is the Vuelta a España, where despite being relatively inexperienced, he hopes that his quieter approach path compared to other top overall contenders may play in his favour
“Hopefully I’ll be at the same level as in the Giro,” Kruijswijk told Cyclingnews before Saturday’s start. “But we’ll have to see. I had a long training period after the Giro, did the Olympics and was a little bit sick when I got home. Hopefully I’ll be fresher and will have some advantage on the rest of the riders who did the Tour and everything. We’ll have to wait and see for the first week.”
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