![]() An individual time trial (ITT). Alberto Contador, Cadel Evans, Fabian Cancellara, Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome. Most recent winners of the. Cadel Evans is a four-time Olympian. He won the 2007 Beijing Olympic time trial event and competed in the road race and individual time trial at the.![]() ![]() Cadel Evans: Porte deserves leadership role at Giro d'Italia. Cadel Evans believes Richie Porte has earned his role as Team Sky's leader for Giro d’Italia and that the fellow Australian deserves to start as one of the favourites. Related Articles. The one concern that the retired 2. Tour de France champion has of what 3. Porte can do in the Giro is if he will have enough in the tank after a solid five months racing block, preceded by a long and hard pre- season of training. Speaking to Cyclingnews after he attended the Tour of Flanders for the first time – as a spectator and rider – Evans otherwise had nothing but praise for Porte. He cited Porte’s wins in the Australian time trial title, second place overall and victory in the Old Willunga Hill stage of the Tour Down Under and wins in Paris- Nice and the Volta a Catalunya as his principal achievements so far this season. Porte was also fourth overall in the Vuelta ao Algarve in which he also won a stage.“He’s had a fantastic start to the year. His performance at the time trial in the national championships and Tour Down Under showed he was right there,” Evans told Cyclingnews.“With the way the .
But he got to show that at the Tour Down Under on the second last stage . It’s a great sign and obviously he is going better than he did last year. I was March until the end of July. He rode so convincingly in the time trial that didn’t suit him so well. As long he doesn’t pay for it in the second half of the Giro, it is a great sign.”If anything, that Porte has been winning races regularly is ideal, according to Evans.“Every race you win reinforces everything that you are doing, convinces you more and more,” Evans said. Evans also encourages Porte to continue racing to win his last event before the Giro d’Italia – the Giro del Trentino in Italy from April 2. It’s a good race for the win,” Evans said. That was my experience. A block of racing is the best training you can get. It’s only a stage race, on good roads, smooth roads and they are not long stages. Richie should just take it as it comes. He doesn’t have to convince himself. He doesn’t have to convince his team what he is capable of.”The Giro contenders: how they fare. Evans still rates Spaniard Alberto Contador as the rider to beat in the Giro. But he believes that Porte, Colombian Rigoberto Uran (Etixx- Quick. Step) and Italian Fabio Aru (Astana) will all be in the fray to challenge to Contador. Asked for his standout Giro favourite, Evans said: “Contador, but with a good Richie, good Uran, good Aru it’s going to be a really . The fact there are other contenders of the level of Richie - or close to him - may well work in . The most poignant loss was in the 2. Tour when Evans finished second at 2. Spaniard. But memorable of his wins was firstly in the 2. Tour when he took the yellow jersey on stage eight and had an overall lead of a minute- plus on Contador before a fractured elbow sustained in a crash that day led to him losing it. Then in the 2. 01. Tour he won, Evans beat Contador in a photo- finish to win stage four to Mur de Bretagne. Evans believes any win over Contador helps going into a grand tour, and Porte should discover that in the Giro. En- route to winning the Volta a Catalunya that Contador raced, Porte beat him on stage four to La Molina by gapping him near the finish.“It’s crucial and especially . It’s certainly much better to have one over him than none. That’s going to be to Richie’s advantage. But let’s see what sort of Contador arrives at the Giro. We saw a couple of grand tours where he turned up more than unbeatable. He is not quite the rider he was five years ago, but still he is still a hard nut to crack. It is difficult to argue he is not the same grand tour rider in this current generation.”As for the other contenders, Evans is excited to see what Uran and Aru can produce.“I think Rigoberto is going to put up a solid fight this year,” Evans said of the Columbian who finished second last year and in 2. Evans placed third.“After last year . Aru is of the same level, but not as old, not as experienced.
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