Mikel Landa: “This Giro can win”

Enjoyed the good work done and the good feelings he experienced after the first nine days of the competition, the Alava man Mikel Landa | still thinking this is his great year on Turn around, a race he had fought six times before and where he was 3rd in 2015, his best result in a three-week Grand Tour. This is the feeling that the leader of Bahrain-Victorius at the virtual press conference he held on the first day of the Corsa Rosa holiday and attended by MD.

relaxing, the Murguia he first indicated that he was in pain, but in shape after the double fall experienced in the stage of block house. “It was a huge blow. Everything is pretty painful. Now I have bruises that I did not feel, but I am calm because it is not serious, but we have some calm days that will definitely heal me ”. One day this past Sunday where, despite double misfortune, he was with the best, which “gives me morale, I had a little doubt about how he would be, other than falling sometimes you doubt, and I want to continue to enjoy it Turn around”.

A Giro that after the first week was very tight, with the Sevillian Juan Pedro Lopez as leader and in the top ten in just one minute. “The general has not been decided yet, there are many dangerous days and stages left and we have to use the whole team to try to win the race”, because Mikel sees himself with the strength to aspire to everything in the race. 105th edition of the quiz in Italian. “If I see myself winning the Giro? It’s a dream to win, I’ve tried for years, fighting for it, but I always find rivals who are stronger than me and until now it hasn’t been. “It could be the year, so far so good. This Giro can win”.

And so far, in response to the MD, everything is “on schedule. Maybe yesterday’s crashes doubted me, but I’m happy, the general is very close and my options are intact”. “I want to get the pink jersey, it’s a dream. Yesterday could have been a disaster, but with the help of the team he can save the day and we continue to dream that someday I will get the pink jersey”.

As for rivals to consider or who are most concerned with him, Mikel named Carapaz, Almeida Y Hinleysome rivals who do not prevent him from thinking that “the Giro can be won, in the mountains with me the best and do not have much time. You have to be attentive, be orderly every day and no surprises. Be persevere, the Giro is long and every day pays off ”.

Landa also has a few words of praise for Sevillian Juan Pedro Lopez, leader of the Giro d’Italia after the Blockhaus stage: “She is very beautiful. He takes small steps, he is young and he can do great things ”.