Movistar’s three team leaders for 2018 - Nairo Quintana, Alejandro Valverde and new signing Mikel Landa - could all ride the Tour de France next July. The three-pronged attack would provide the Spanish squad with multiple options to take on defending champion Chris Froome (Team Sky).
Movistar has not ruled out that either Landa or Valverde could also take part in the Giro d’Italia. The Spanish team considered its option and decided on a Grand Tour strategy at the end of a weeklong team meeting near the team's headquarters in Pamplona, Spain.
The current thinking is that all three could well be present at the Tour’s start line of Les Vendées next July 7. The idea was backed up by team manager Eusebio Unzué as well as the riders in separate interviews with a small group of media, including Cyclingnews.
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“We’ve won the Giro d’Italia in recent years, and the Vuelta, taken the Hour Record and won several top Classics. The gap in all of this is the Tour de France,” Unzue pointed out.
“Obviously, we’ve hit on a Froome in top condition, and although he has been incredibly consistent in the Tour and Vuelta this year, there have maybe been fewer flashes of brilliance than in other seasons.
“But we’ve got the idea of having all three riders in the Tour. We’ll see. We’re still saying goodbye to 2017, rather than saying hello to 2018, but over the next few weeks we’ll come to a final decision.”
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