For his first season with the German team Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe, Matteo Sobrero had a more than decent year playing a servant role to help its main leaders. Author of an excellent first part of the season, with a 4th place in the general classification of theAlula Tour and a 12th place on the “Primavera” Milan-San Remothe 27-year-old rider had difficulty continuing during the second part of the season, finishing it “exhausted”, as he expressed it in an interview given to our colleagues at Bici.Pro.
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“Once you stop, fatigue and exhaustion take over you.”
In this interview, Matteo Sobrero speaks in particular about the main objective of the team: to win the Tour de France with the Slovenian Primoz Roglic. “We left to do reconnaissance. Then we went to Andorra for the altitude training camp, we ran the Dauphiné, then we returned to the training camp in Tignes. Once the preparation was finished, he There was the official presentation of Red Bull in Austria and, a few days later, the departure from Florence.”
“Once you stop, fatigue and exhaustion take over you. All my teammates who finished the Tour said they felt the effects of that long period of stress. And that's something I personally took away with me in the last race of the season, even if I stopped between the end of the Tour and the other races It's about finding the right rhythm and getting used to certain workloads and stress. teams follow a similar program before the Tour,” explains the former runner from Jayco-Alula.
“I am impressed by Primoz Roglic”
Having raced for no less than three teams before joining Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohethe Italian, despite the many leaders he has worked alongside, is impressed by the four-time winner of the Tour of Spain, Primoz Roglic. “I immediately felt good with him, we have an excellent relationship. He is a different leader from those I have known before, he really has the charisma of a champion. For the moment, I do not I'm not yet totally linked to him, I could run in support of other captains. We'll see what comes out of the December retreat, it won't be long.” concludes Matteo Sobrero at the microphone of the Italian media Bici.Pro.
