“This is absolutely incredible. Really fantastic, I’m very happy with this one”, Rowe beams afterwards in Vitry-en-Charollais. “I felt very confident after yesterday. I believed I could make it at the end. I hope I can continue in this fashion.”
Rowe is referring to the first stage of the seven-day stage race for the U23 talents. His compatriot Noah Hobbs triumphed yesterday in the Nations Cup race after a strong lead-out from the Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development rider, who joined the yellow-and-black team this year. “Actually, we had the same goal in mind today. But winning this way wasn’t quite what we had planned beforehand.”