Nairo Quintana<\/a>, Rigoberto Ur\u00e1n, Esteban Chaves, and the still young Egan Bernal – and to become a GC rider Movistar will be able to rely on. But there’s still a long way to go from top-10 at Tour of Oman to top-10 a Grand Tour. One of the areas Pescador knows requires some work is his time trial.<\/p>\n“These improvements are something I need to work on with my coach, especially if I want to be in the fight at week-long races that include a time trial,” he explains. His ambition is evident: “I\u2019ve always wanted to be a general classification rider.”<\/p>\n
A debut at a Grand Tour in 2026 remains uncertain, but he does not hide his excitement. “Going to a Grand Tour this year? It\u2019s an unknown. If it were up to me? Of course. I\u2019d like to test myself in a Grand Tour, see what the suffering is like after the tenth day\u2026 I\u2019m very motivated by how things are going.”<\/p>\n
His immediate target is to cement his place within the team: “Now it\u2019s time to keep growing and establish myself as one of the references.”<\/p>\n
Based in the Tuscan region of Italy, Pescador shares a room with one of his great role models, Nairo Quintana, with whom he recently raced in Oman. “He\u2019s an idol for many, myself included, and here he\u2019s the boss. I try to make the most of every piece of advice, on and off the bike, because it\u2019s not all cycling,” the young Colombian highlights.<\/p>\n
In the final classification of the Tour of Oman<\/a>, Quintana finished one second ahead of his young successor, a symbolic snapshot of the generational change under way at the team. It is a natural transition in which both still have plenty to contribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking to this year, he expects a shift in focus that lets him shine on his terrain. !I\u2019ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,192803,32792,140703,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-474622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-diego-pescador","12":"tag-movistar-team","13":"tag-nairo-quintana","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}