The 2017 edition of the Tour of Britain is a veritable sprinting feast and, with six of the eight stages almost certain to culminate in a bunch gallop – and the possibility of a seventh – there's plenty to go round the many top-class sprinters gathered at the table.
Not that Caleb Ewan (Orica-Scott) is in the mood for sharing. The young Australian claimed his second victory of the race on stage 3, moving back into the overall lead. After something of a breakthrough at February's Abu Dhabi Tour, in terms of beating riders from the very top tier, he now seems to be doing just that with consistency, and he wants 'as many stages as possible' before the week is out.
In that sense, a race so dense in sprint opportunities throws up a peculiar challenge.
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"When there's a stage that I can go for, in any tour, there's obviously more pressure, so having sprint after sprint, day after day, you always have that pressure on you," Ewan explained in his winner's press conference in Scunthorpe.
"Sometimes it's nice to have a mountain stage where you can kind of… not so much physically relax but more mentally relax. The TT is the only stage here where I can fully mentally relax. But it's good I guess. When you miss out on one sprint or stuff something up, there's always plenty more chances to come."
In a field that contains Fernando Gaviria, Mark Cavendish, Elia Viviani, Alexander Kristoff, Edvald Boasson, Hagen, and Dylan Groenewegen, Ewan would surely have signed for two victories from this race as a whole. Perhaps an added challenge now is staying hungry, and approaching the remaining stages as if his week wasn't already a success.
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