Rigoberto Urán (Cannondale-Drapac) has decided to switch his Grand Tour objectives this year from the Giro d’Italia, where he has twice finished second overall, to a much less tried-and-tested focus on the Tour de France.
Urán had a bad crash in the time trial half-way through the Giro last year, a race that has produced his best Grand Tour results to date, and he ended up seventh overall. That was some way off his best results in the corsa rosa, where he garnered a stage win and the runner’s up spot in Milan in 2013 - despite working for Bradley Wiggins for most of the first two weeks - and again in 2014, where he briefly led the race as far as the Stelvio stage after winning the Barolo time trial.
Urán also finished seventh overall and clinched the Best Young Rider’s prize in the 2012 Giro, which was at the time Sky’s first victory in any final classification of a Grand Tour, albeit quickly superseded by Bradley Wiggins' victory in the Tour de France that July.
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This time around, though, Urán will opt to switch back to the Tour de France after two difficult years in the Giro d’Italia. So far, his best result in three participations in the Tour was 23rd in 2011.
“I’m giving the Giro a miss this year, “ the 30-year-old told Cyclingnews at the Ruta del Sol. “I like the Tour route; it’s different to other seasons, and given I’m going to be going much harder in the spring Classics, it makes sense from that point of view, too.
“I’ve tried doing the Giro and Tour in the same year [2015] and it didn’t work out in either for me. It’s very challenging.”
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