After two weeks of what he and his teammates dubbed the ‘Tour de Tenerife’, Luke Rowe is ready to line up at the Criterium du Dauphine and the Tour de France as part of Chris Froome’s Team Sky squad.
Rowe has been part of Team Sky for the last two editions of the Criterium du Dauphine and the Tour de France, playing a pivotal role in Froome’s success in both races in 2015 and 2016.
Froome has taken a more gradual approach to racing in 2017 as he targets the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana double. Although Froome has yet to win in 2017, Rowe believes that the Kenyan-born Briton and Team Sky are ready to defend their Dauphine crown.
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“You see him go through the process year-after-year before the Tour. It’s copy and paste, but also he’s learning from the previous years by making a few little tweaks. Chris knows when he needs to come good,” Rowe told Cyclingnews before linking up with his teammates ahead of Sunday’s first stage.
“He aims to be around 95 per cent and we’re aiming to go to the Dauphine and win. That’s no secret and we’ve had success there in previous years. Hopefully, we can do that with Froome, and he seems ready for it.”
Rowe, Froome and a number of the Team Sky collective, recently spent time in Tenerife – the once again in-vogue training hotspot for riders preparing for the summer of French racing.
The hard work before the mountain stages
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