Already winner this season, 8th of The Walloon arrow, 5th the Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Thibau Nys (Lidl-Trek) will undoubtedly be one of the attractions of the next Tour de Francewhich will be an opportunity for him to participate in his first big round. The team's puncturer of the team Lidl-Trek will find an ideal playground in the first week to allow him to raise his arms, also reserving the possibility of wearing the yellow jersey, with demanding steps from the second day of racing. Two weeks before his discovery of Tour de Francethe Belgian confided in The latest news on his ambitions for his first big round, and his shape after being forced to leave the roads of Belgian Tour.
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“It depends on several factors”
Even if he will participate for the first time in Tour de Francewhich will at the same time constitute its first experience in a three -week race, Thibau Nys will arrive in Lille with clear ambitions, raise your arms: “Steps 2 (Boulogne-sur-Mer), 4 (Rouen), 6 (Vire-Normandie) and 7 (ripe-de-Bretagne) are all good chances. That, it is on paper, because it depends on several factors. How can the race go? A breakaway can hold? How do I feel …? level ?
But despite these victory ambitions, the Belgian will not be the only leader of the team Lidl-Trek which will also be carried by Jonathan Milan as well as Mathias Skjelmoseenough to remove a little pressure from him. The European cyclo-cross champion will also be able to count on solid team members to surround it and guide it for this baptism: “Being able to count on guys like Jasper Stuyven and Edward Theuns for that is a blessing. In terms of racing instincts, tactics, positioning, they are among the whole, very better in the world. Apart from that, I have already been warned and alarmed by everyone on what it was going to look like.” But before heading in the north of France, Nys will stop this weekend in Binche, to play its national championships.
