Caleb Ewan’s defeat to Peter Sagan on stage 1 of the Tour de Pologne could not stop the Orica-Scott fast man from taking more than a few plus points away from his first WorldTour sprint since in May.
Ewan raced the Hammer Series in early June, where his squad finished third overall, but the Tour de Pologne is his first competitive traditional road event since the Giro d’Italia, where he won a stage on a technical, twisting finish into the southern town of Alberobello.
Ewan already had four top five places to his name in the Tour de Pologne from his previous participations in 2015 and 2016. His best result was a second place to Marcel Kittel in Warsaw two years ago, and he had to settle for another runner-up spot in Krakow on Saturday.
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“I was left pretty early with just Luka [Mezgec] left and down the back straight of the course in the last lap, a few strong attacks went,” Ewan told Cyclingnews after the finish.
“He had to pretty much shut both of them down so he did a massive turn, and obviously towards the end, he couldn’t do a lead-out because he’d done so much work before. But he still did a brilliant job to drop me off right near the front.”
Mezgec also kept Ewan out of trouble and close to the front when arguably it mattered most, at the point when a crash blighted several of the sprinters’ chances of taking on Sagan. “I didn’t see the crash, I was in a good position, and I didn’t get caught behind,” Ewan said.
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