Harry Tanfield in a position to make his Grand Tour debut on the Snow-threatened Vuelta a España

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The 25-year-old will be in the race of his young career at the first level of Irún this Tuesday morning.

Tanfield won confirmation of his variety last weekend when his AG2R la Mondiale team reorganized the charts following the cancellation of Paris-Roubaix, and has been released to the arrangements ever since.

“I think I’d be out of season by now,” Tanfield said. “As soon as I found out, I booked a flight and arrived in Spain the next day. “

This year’s Lap will be one of the others.

Pushed past the same end of the season through the pandemic and shortened to 18 stages after the cancellation of a planned start in Utrecht, the Vuelta enjoys an exceptionally complicated tour and an eclectic combination of cycling fares and Grand Tour recruits thanks to the overlap with the Giro d’Italia.

Two-time winner Chris Froome will compete in his ultimate career for the Ineos Grenadiers alongside Richard Carapaz, but will face defending champion Primoz Roglic and Tom Dumoulin, desperate to make up for their sadness in the Tour de France, as well as Thibaut Pinot. Luis León Sánchez and Dan Martín.

At the end of the stopover, Tanfield is one of four Debutantes of the British Grand Tour in the race alongside Lotto-Soudal’s Mark Donovan and Bahrain-McLaren’s partner Fred Wright and Stevie Williams.

Threats from coronavirus and weather, with snow already falling in various parts of the planned direction, rise to unknowns for Tanfield, who had never before tackled a race of this duration or difficulty.

While he said the snow “couldn’t be worse than a day in North Yorkshire in December,” the Great Ayton rider admitted that the Pyrenees were beyond his comfort zone on the moors.

When asked if he got discouraged during the course, Tanfield said that he had read the road book until the scheduled end of next Sunday at the Tourmalet and stopped there.

“This step is ridiculous, being brutal,” he said.

AG2R La Mondiale will use an opportunistic technique to race through the stages, and will have in Tanfield a driver whose biggest victory to date came here after a yorkshire Tour getaway in 2018.

“We don’t have a general leader, it’s more about hunting on stage, which is pretty good because we’re free,” Tanfield said. “It gives everyone the chance to run. “

The unforeseen opportunity can also be golden with Tanfield still in talks about a new contract for next season.

“Rarely can you compete in races like this,” he said. Many other people have missed this year’s races and I am one of them. I have what I have and you’re looking to make the most of it. “. “

Tanfield called his year so far “a little cursed,” saying he needed careers to set his pace, which proved complicated in a chaotic campaign. This means that their most productive form is true to time trials with their local club.

“I did some smart races on the Tour de Polonia and then on Poitou-Charentes (in August), but nothing special,” he says. “After the races, I had smart legs, but there are two or three weeks left. for the next one.

“I’ve set a lot of records at my local club 10, if that’s something to say, but it clearly doesn’t count for the next race or the next contract. “

If the race is what Tanfield wants to place on his legs, an 18-stage Grand Tour may be what you need. “Let’s hope we get there, huh?” He said.

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