After two top ten finishes in his last two Grand Tours, South Africa's Louis Meintjes tackles this year's Vuelta a España free to choose - so far - whether he will go for stage wins or the overall.
Lampre-Merida lost over two minutes in the Vuelta's opening team time trial on Team Sky, but as their sports director Simone Pedrazzini told Cyclingnews at the start of stage 3, they are not yet ruling out their young leader's options in that area.
"We're still looking at the overall, we'd already thought about just going for the stages because he's already done the Tour [where he finished eighth] and we didn't want to push him too hard," Pedrazzini explained.
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"So if he's good, we'll try the GC, but the main idea is for stages. Today [stage three] we'll get a better idea. There's a steep climb today [stage three] and a steadier one up to the finish tomorrow, but if he's good, he could do well on both kinds of climbs."
Meintjes ended the day losing 35 seconds to new race leader Ruben Fernandez (Movistar) and half a minute to the likes of Chris Froome (Sky) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar). If he wants to target the GC, he has work to do at 2:49 from Fernandez.
Last week, Meintjes was cautiously optimistic, telling Cyclingnews that "It's the same as last year, I just have to see how the form is after the Tour. It's been a pretty long stretch with the Olympics, but there's no real pressure on me to do general classification."
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