Wout Poels could become the next Team Sky super domestique to try his hand at targeting the general classification in a Grand Tour. The 28-year-old has twice guided Chris Froome to Tour de France success and claimed Team Sky’s first ever monument victory at Liege-Bastogne-Liege earlier this year.
The former Etixx-QuickStep rider has yet to finalise his programme with his employers for 2017, but either the Giro d’Italia or the Vuelta a Espana could form part of his campaign.
“This winter we have to look with the team as to what my programme will be and what they want to do, and with Chris. Maybe it will be the Vuelta or the Giro but we have to look at it,” Poels told Cyclingnews after winning stage 6 of the Tour of Britain.
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“I think the Vuelta might be better but I’ve done the Giro one time and I also really liked it there. We have to see.”
Team Sky has seen several riders fly the Froome Tour nest and in search of Grand Tour glory of their own. Richie Porte, Mikel Landa and Rigoberto Uran have all been given varying degrees of freedom in the past but Froome and former Sky leader, Bradley Wiggins, remain the only two men to have carried off Grand Tour success. However, Poels, who looked every bit as good, if not better, than most of Froome’s rivals during the second half of this year’s Tour, believes that he is ready.
“I think so. I’m now 28 and I’ve done some really nice things with Chris in the Tour so I think I’m ready for it. Hopefully the legs are ready for it.”
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