Kenny Elissonde to Team Sky was one of the more surprising transfers of last winter. After five years with the FDJ team, the diminutive climber left his comfort zone to become the only Frenchman on the British team – and only the third in their history.
Cyclingnews sat down with Elissonde in Japan during the recent Saitama Criterium to get the low down on his first season at Team Sky – from marginal gains and mountain trains to the ever-controversial Gianni Moscon and the contrasting personalities of Dave Brailsford and Marc Madiot.
Cyclingnews: How do you look back on your 2017 season?
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Kenny Elissonde: It was a good, interesting year with a lot of changes in the way of working and doing things in general. So it was learning experience, a learning year.
CN: How big a change was it?
KE: If I take very single thing I did this year, everything was different at one point. You change your way of eating, your recovery, everything in the background... everything. It was a constant change in my habits. I had five years behind me in the same team, I’d had the same coach since I was 18, so I knew it would be a change but it in the end was quite a big change. I’m glad I did it. It’s good to experience new things.
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