Jumbo-Visma are aiming to hit the ground running at the Vuelta a España on Saturday, attempting to clinch a full house of victories on the opening stages of all three 2019 Grand Tours, says Dutch team member Robert Gesink.
"We're heading out with a really strong team, just as in the other two Grand Tours where we managed to be up there from the start – that's what we want to do in Spain," Gesink told Cyclingnews earlier this month.
"Primož [Roglič] won the prologue at the Giro d'Italia, Mike [Teunissen] won the first bunch sprint at the Tour de France, and of course there's a team time trial at the [start of the] Vuelta. So we'll start off straight away at full gas, and I'm looking forward to that," Gesink said.
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Jumbo-Visma also won the TTT at the Tour de France this year, but the team is looking longer term in the race, too, as it has already placed both Roglič and Steven Kruijswijk on the podium of Grand Tours this year, and so they go into the Vuelta with strong GC hopes.
Kruijswijk has gone close in Spain before, too, just missing out on the Vuelta podium last year in the course of building up a series of steadily improving Grand Tour GC results: ninth overall at the Vuelta in 2017, fifth at the 2018 Tour, fourth at last year's Vuelta and then third at this year's Tour.
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