BMC Racing came up empty handed after a day in the thick of the action at the Tour of the Alps, but their performance and so their satisfaction was far better than their results. Swiss neo-pro Kilian Frankiny was part of the strong break of the day that was swept up a kilometre from the finish, and then Rohan Dennis took a close third place in the sprint in Cles.
BMC gave Dennis the best lead out they could in the hectic sprint, and he came through fast and late but was unable to catch Matteo Montaguti (AG2R-La Mondiale) and Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) at the line.
Dennis was frustrated and angry immediately after going close to victory, but later he saw his glass half full after surviving the tough climbs and rolling roads in the apple orchards of the Val di Non. On Wednesday, he struggled in the cold and on the climbs, finishing 4:15 down on current leader Geraint Thomas (Team Sky). That put a dent in his pride, but he bounced back on Thursday and rediscovered his natural confidence.
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"I didn’t win, but that’s the way it is," Dennis said.
"It would have been better to win, but I’ve got to look to the positives and that’s the climbing aspect of the day. I got over the last steep climb and that’s a bit of redemption after what happened yesterday when I got dropped. Maybe I just didn’t feel good in the cold, but today I bounced back on the climbs and felt good. Yesterday I suffered a lot on the second to last climb, while today I was quite comfortable. I can take some positives from today."
Dennis knows that he has time on his side before he faces some serious climbs in the final week of the Giro d’Italia and is hoping to return to the Italian Alps and Dolomites with far better high-end threshold.
Neo-pro Frankiny shows his talents by going on the attack
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