Mikel Landa (Team Sky) has said that whilst future Movistar teammates Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde would be leaders at the Tour de France “from the outset,” he does not yet rule out his own options in the race.
Landa was talking at Movistar’s team launch in Madrid on Thursday and he maintained, broadly speaking, the same attitude as when he spoke last at length to reporters at a team training camp in Navarre last month. The Basque recognised Valverde and Quintana’s top status for the Tour but confirmed that coming so closely to the podium in July had left him with a sense of unfinished business.
“I like the Giro, but coming so close without playing all my cards makes me want to return to [the Tour] this year,” Landa said, according to the Spanish website Ciclo21.
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Currently, Movistar are mulling over the idea of sending all three leaders to the Tour, although they are waiting until the Vuelta a España route is published January 13 before the riders’ specific race calendars are definitively established.
The question of the World Championships is also at the back of Landa’s mind, but he says he is not thinking too hard about it for now.
“For the moment, I’m only planning as far as the Tour,” he said. “I want to have my chance to do something [in the Tour] and that’ll be when I look at the rest of the season.”
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