No sooner had Marc Soler (Movistar) challenged Adam Yates (Orica-Scott), Chris Froome (Team Sky) and Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) on the Lo Port summit finish of the Volta a Catalunya than teammate Alejandro Valverde was predicting "this boy will be able to win whatever he likes, even three week Tours."
This was music to the ears of the Spanish cycling fans, desperate to find a successor to Contador. But could it be too much pressure too soon for the 23-year-old Catalan? Judging from the 2015 Tour de L'Avenir winner's well-focused answers in this interview with Cyclingnews, it doesn't seem so.
Cyclingnews: This year, the first time many people sat up and took noticed of you was when you were on the attack with Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) on the last day of Paris-Nice. What memories do you have of that day?
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Marc Soler: I attacked to try to get the stage, and it couldn't work out. But I was still very satisfied with it.
CN: Eusebio Unzue (Movistar team manager) said that he thought what you did in the last three stages of Paris-Nice had more long-term value than what happened at Lo Port. Do you agree?
MS: Paris-Nice was what really made me change my mentality, to realise I could be up there with the very biggest names fighting for a stage or even the overall. So I went to Catalonia with my morale really high and that's where it all took off. But Paris-Nice was where everything changed for me.
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