Caleb Ewan eyes wins in all three Grand Tours in 2021

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Team Lotto rider Australias Caleb Ewan celebrates just after crossing the complete line and winning the 3rd phase of the 107th version of the Tour de France biking race 198 km involving Wonderful and Sisteron on August 31 2020 Photo by Vincent KALUT a variety of sources AFP Photograph by VINCENT KALUTAFP by using Getty Photographs

Caleb Ewan has some significant targets on his 2021 radar in his 3rd calendar year with the Lotto Soudal WorldTour workforce. The Australian sprinter claimed he preferred to race all a few Grand Tours for the first time in the same season, and earn a phase at each individual race as very well.

Ewan collected 7 of the 12 whole victories won by the Lotto Soudal squad final time. It is a tall purchase for the sprinter, who steps about 15cm shorter in height than his rivals but is now regarded for his significant accomplishments on the bicycle.

“The Tour gives far more selections for sprinters this year and that is an prospect for me. In other a long time I was not concerned in that eco-friendly battle and I only aimed for phase victories,” he instructed Net Nieuwsblad.

About racing the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, he explained, “But that is a single of my plans in 2021. Just like the environmentally friendly jersey, by the way.”

To acquire a phase in each and every of the Grand Tours in a person calendar 12 months was last accomplished by Italian Alessandro Petacchi when racing for Fasso Bortolo in 2003, and he raked in 15 phase wins mixed that 12 months at the 3 races.

Ewan has 5 Tour phase wins, introducing two victories in 2020. He was first to the line on stage 3 in Sisteron, which later on Ewan reported was his favorite gain of the period, and then received stage 11 in Poitiers. He has five career wins at the Giro and one particular phase acquire at the Vuelta, which he past raced in 2015 though at Orica-GreenEDGE.

“Five is rather an achievement and I’ll go for the green jersey in the upcoming,” Ewen mentioned last slide about the Tour. In the factors classification in Francd, his ideal placement was 2nd in 2019, 68 factors driving winner Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe).

“My task for the staff is to gain,” he discussed in Oct after a gain at Scheldeprijs at the end of 2020. “Absolutely everyone has their part in the group, and they are all significant. My job is to get races, and I am pleased that I could produce this year.”

Ewan is getting ready to go away his European foundation in Monaco in a make any difference of times for the Lotto Soudal training camp in Spain, which will be divided in three groups – sprinters, climbers, Classics riders – for continued COVID-19 coronavirus protocols. Owing to UCI race cancellations associated to the pandemic, he is not in Australia this January.

Ewan has only raced two Grand Tours in the exact same calendar year on just one occasion, 2019, coming absent with many wins in the Giro and Tour. He is still just 26 old, he and his direct-out men – Roger Kluge and Jasper De Buyst – are all underneath contract by way of 2022, and the races are back on their common calendar positions, so much this year.

“There was normally the option to go to the Vuelta, but it feels like a definitely long year, even nevertheless we have not truly raced that considerably,” Ewan experienced claimed about 2020. “I hope that subsequent season the biking calendar is ordinary again.”