After ending his 2017 season with four stage victories at the Tour of Guangxi WorldTour race in China, Fernando Gaviria is finally enjoying the off-season at home in Colombia, understandably proud of his season.
The 23-year-old Colombian won 14 races in 2017, including four stages at the Giro d’Italia, where he also wore the leader’s pink jersey for a day and won the ciclamino points jersey. His Classics campaign was arguably below par and he was hugely disappointed to finish eighth in the World Championships behind Peter Sagan but Gaviria prefers to remember the highs rather the lows.
"My season has been quite long this year, starting in January at the Vuelta a San Juan and ending in October at the Tour of Guangxi. What I am really proud of is that I was able to win in the very first and last race I did," Gaviria said in an interview published by his Quick-Step Floors team.
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"Generally, looking back at this season, my second as a pro, I am really pleased with how it all played out, especially having in mind I was out for a while during the season with an injury in my left leg, which wasn't great timing for building up for the second part of the season. However, 14 victories – a double up of last year – including four Giro d'Italia wins and the points jersey is something I am very proud of.”
Unhappy about Bergen
A calf injury caused when Gaviria’s foot came out of his pedal in training disrupted his summer and surgery was needed to relieve a hematoma, but he worked hard and recovered, winning a stage at the Tour of Britain before riding an aggressive at the World Championships in Bergen. He perhaps wasted his strength by going with attacks in the final five kilometres and was rightly angry with his performance at the time.
"I made some mistakes because I really wanted to win. Those mistakes cost me in the end," Gaviria admitted to Cyclingnews immediately after the race.
Turning it up a notch in 2018
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