At the start of the Vuelta a San Juan, no one was talking about Roman Villalobos (Canel's Specialized) as a potential overall winner, but, after he won stage 2 and pulled on the race leader's jersey, the 27-year-old Costa Rican said he will do everything in his power to keep the lead through the final podium.
"When you are a rider it is important to have dreams and to think in a big way," he said. "I am a man of challenges, and in my mind is to win the Vuelta a San Juan and to do everything to win, but I have to go stage by stage."
Villalobos said he told his teammates he wanted to win stage 2 to that morning, and he pulled it off against quality riders like Tiesj Benoot (Lotto Soudal), Filippo Ganna (Bahrain-Merida), Oscar Sevilla (Medellin-Inter), and Eduardo Sepulveda and Dayer Quintana of Movistar.
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Maybe people should pay attention when he says now that he wants to win the overall.
Villalobos has ridden the majority of his career in Costa Rica, but he spent a brief time racing in Spain as an amateur. He's also raced in Chile and has won the Vuelta a Guatemala twice in 2015 and 2016. He competed in the Volta a Portugal in 2017, a race he says is the most international he's done.
Villalobos has had other success in Argentina, taking third on stage 4 of the 2016 Tour de San Luis behind Sepulveda and Janier Acevedo, and taking second to Sepulveda in the mountains classification.
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