Thibaut Pinot has already stated he’d like to skip the 2017 Tour de France and have a crack at the Giro d’Italia, and it turns out fellow French star Romain Bardet is going through a similar thought process.
While Pinot’s thinking is based on a rough couple of years at the Tour – where he has fallen way short of repeating his 2014 podium – Bardet enjoyed the performance of his career at this year’s Tour, finishing second behind Chris Froome and quickly becoming the star of the race in France, with his face on numerous L’Equipe front pages.
As such, French expectations for a first home winner of the Tour de France since Bernard Hinault in 1985 have been significantly heightened, but Bardet says he may need to go away and have a crack at a different Grand Tour before he’s in a position to win the big one.
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“I’m not ready to win the Tour for the moment,” said the 25-year-old in a long interview with L’Equipe on Friday, describing the gulf between himself and Froome as ‘enormous’.
“The idea is to talk to my coach and the team management. We’ll put each of the three routes in front of us and say, ‘what shall we do this year’. Anything is possible."
Asked whether he’s considering missing the Tour, he responded: “That’s not what I’m saying but it might be that it’s not the number one priority.
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