De Gendt: “I love la Volta, and if I can, I’ll go for another stage”

March 25 th 2019 - 18:26 [GMT + 1]

The winner of the first stage of the 99th  Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, Thomas de Gendt, has shown his love for the race, where he has won up to four times at four different editions.

“I love racing la Volta, it is always at the start of the season, but I always feel very good at this time of the year. At the Paris –Nice and at la Volta a Catalunya I am always in a good shape. I have trained a lot in Spain and I know well the roads and the mountains and I love coming back every year to that race, it is hard, but I love a lot racing it.

In spite of his extraordinary race at Calella, De Gendt has dismissed himself as the winner of the general classification.

“I won’t be at the fight for the general, because there are riders as Bernal, and it will be very difficult to beat them. I think I’ll lose the leader jersey at the firs finish line at high. I am sure that less than 3 minutes is not enough in front of the best climbers to defend the leader jersey”, has declared.

Nevertheless, De Gendt has expressed that his work has not ended yet and that if he can, he will fight for another winning, for the points as well as for the mountain.

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