The Tour of Italy starts this Friday from Budapest, for 4 Hungarian stages before tipping over on May 10 in the boot. Arnaud Demare, who will not be on the Grande Boucle in July in France, is one of the entries on the other side of the Alps. The Beauvaisien, winner of the cyclamen jersey, that of the best sprinter in 2020 will try again to shine in the first big stage race of his season.
With his training, the Groupama FDJ and a full train, Arnaud Démare will therefore try to draw inspiration from what he has already done on a Giro, without rehashing too much of this glorious past. “Even if we have to use it as an example, we’re starting a new season, a new Giro, so what I’ve done is good, but you can’t just live with that.”
Now I’m at the Giro and I only think about the Giro.
Arnaud Démare also turned the Tour de France page. “I think it would be sad and unprofessional not to have digested when arriving at the Giro”, he poses, speaking of the decision of Groupama FDJ not to align it with the Grande Boucle this summer. . “It’s something I respect, as I said before, I’m disappointed but here it is, now I’m at the Giro and I only think about the Giro.”
Without advancing on a precise objective of stage victories, which would be, according to him, “too difficult and pretentious”, Arnaud Démare knows that 6 or 7 stages are promised a massive arrival. He will also have to deal with serious competition and in particular that of the indestructible Mark Cavendish. “It gives me even more motivation”, launches the sprinter from Oise!