Landa: "I am facing a great opportunity to achieve my dream"

The Spanish Mikel Landa | (Bahrain Victorious) is still aspiring “in total” in the week of Turn around what’s left From fourth place, a minute behind the leader, the Ecuadorian Richard Carapazthe player from Alava still wants to fulfill an old dream: take home the ‘Trophy of Infinite Love’.

Landa (Murgia, 32 years old) spent the third day of rest calmly, confident in his strength, and only asked to use his experience against his rivals for a week suited to his characteristics, which there are four stages of high mountains.

“The main difference compared to my rivals is the experience, I am more veteran than Carapaz, Hindley and Almeida, I have run more Giros than them, I have more experience than them, that may be the main difference ”, he said.

“I don’t have a stage marked in red. Four very hard left, especially this Tuesday and Wednesday and Saturday. Each day will be an important test. I feel good, I want to give 100 percent, feel good and compete for a position as high on the podium as possible, ”said the cyclist from Alava on the third day of the Giro break.

Landa, who is motivated to try to reach a dream she has maintained over time, believes that this week “there could be many surprises.” “The stages are very difficult and some will have bad moments, others will try from afar, I think it will be interesting. I face a good opportunity“stressed Landa, fourth overall, 1 minute behind Carapaz.

“So far everything has been fine despite the Blockhaus day accident. I face a good opportunity. Many times I have dreamed of winning the Giro and I see that there are options, so I continue to dream. On Saturday I didn’t feel good, but now more suitable stages are coming for my qualities, ”he stressed. “Aspire to the maximum, you can still win”affected Landa.