Sergio Samitier (Cofidis) arrives at the exit of the Italian turn in the exotic Albania at an excellent moment in form After a good previous job that makes him trust a good result that can approach the thirteenth final place he occupied in 2020.
“I have prepared a lot for the turn, after being at Itzulia and Frankfurt, and in a height concentration in Sierra Nevada. The last month I have only been at home for two days,” explains the Aragon to Efe from Albania.
“I will not say that I arrive better than ever, but of course I arrive very well but I have my feet on the ground. Repeating the 2020 will be very difficult because there is a spectacular participation, “he adds.
Samitier is very grateful to those responsible for his team for all the confidence they have deposited in him in this first season in the French training. “They have let me prepare the turn very well, with a stay in height. I want to return to the team all the confidence they have put in me. “
Despite accumulating eight seasons in the elite and after two years without having a chance to be in a great round, Barbastro cyclist He acknowledges being “a little nervous”, but expressed his trust “in work” developed and “the will” he has put.
“I think the attitude is the multiplier factor that must make the effort and sacrifice I have done during all this time, not only this year, but all these past years, I can come to light and if it is in the form of a stage victory I would love it,” he adds.
Having already been able to roll a few kilometers along the Albanian roads, Samitier anticipates that the first three stages can be “dangerous” and by ways that are in quite a bad condition. “They are shit.”
“The turn does not begin with the hardness that I would like and the first days they will be a save who can. Here people have not seen cycling in their life. It will be dangerous, and I tremble because in the traffic cuts sure that cars, cats and dogs will be put to be put on.
For all these reasons, he anticipates that the first seven days until the first mountain stages arrive will be developed in a classical plan.
His goal for the Transalpina race goes through “being with the first of the general, although I know it will be very difficult.”
For mountain stages, Samitier points out that “I will try to filter in the escape and try to fight for some stage“And if you manage to trim in the high positions of the general classification.
“I understand that from you to you With people like Primoz Roglic or Juan Ayuso I can not be, but perhaps if in a second step, There, I can go to do something big. “
The Aragonese insists that for his aspirations as “harder hard.” “We will have to see how the race develops and try to get a stage,” he said.
