Davide Formolo hit the headlines when he soloed to a stage victory in La Spezia at the 2015 Giro d’Italia, confirming himself as one of Italian cycling’s hottest prospects. There was to be no repeat feat this year as the 24-year-old suffered an injury in the build-up to the race, but he enjoyed a solid third campaign as a professional – one in which he shouldered a Grand Tour double workload for the first time, providing valuable assistance for Andrew Talansky at the Vuelta a Espana.
Cyclingnews recently caught up with Formolo in Saint Feliu de Guixols, Catalunya, where he was laying the foundations of his 2017 season at the Cannondale-Drapac team’s first winter training camp.
Cyclingnews: What’s your assessment of the 2016 season?
Davide Formolo: I had problems at the start. We were preparing everything for the Giro, to be 100 per cent there, then I crashed at [the Tour de] Romandie, and that had really an impact on my performance at the Giro. I couldn’t move the right leg properly – even just to walk from the bus to the room.
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It was a really bad crash. At Romandie, we had an uphill finish the day before the crash, and I was eighth, on a pretty hard climb with lots of the Giro contenders, and I took the white jersey, so I was there and everything was perfect, looking good for the Giro. The day after the crash I was dropping from 50 guys in the bunch – it was a completely different performance.
CN: You still finished the Giro – were you not worried about making the injury worse?
DF: I was just hoping it was going to fix itself, and maybe try for a stage later on. The injury was bad in the first two weeks, the last week it did get better, but I couldn’t catch any breakaways.
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