Jarlinson Pantano (Trek-Segafredo) had a breakout season 2016 but was unable to hit the same heights last year. As he continues his start to the 2018 campaign in his native Colombia, the 29-year-old hopes a combination of factors, including sinus surgery and the retirement of Alberto Contador, can help him back to his best.
Pantano lit up the Tour de France in 2016, his second season at WorldTour level with IAM Cycling. He won a memorable stage in the Jura mountains and went on to continue his assault in the Alps, finishing second on two occasions.
Before that, he'd won a stage and finished fourth overall at the Tour de Suisse.
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Last year, however, he was unable to win a race outside the Colombian national time trial championship and had a disappointing Tour de France.
"The truth is that last season, at the start it was going OK, but in the end it didn't turn out as I'd hoped. I didn't feel how I wanted to," Pantano told Cyclingnews in Pereira at the Colombia Oro y Paz race.
"I don't know why exactly. Not all years are the same, I guess. I thought I had problems with allergies, but in the end it wasn't allergies. So at the end of the year I had surgery on my nose, because I had chronic sinusitis. But in reality I'm not exactly sure where it went wrong."
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