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“Missing those races was a disappointment, but if there\u2019s a silver lining, it\u2019s that April was probably a better time to have my reset before building towards the Tour.”<\/p>\n
Healy added he will take to the next week of racing with a relaxed attitude and without putting too much pressure on himself. He would first assess his form and take it from there.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlways, for me it\u2019s hard coming into a race after a block without racing, but I\u2019ll be taking it day-by-day and seeing how I come through by the end,” he said.<\/p>\n
“There are no crazy ambitions for the week ahead, so it\u2019s also about putting me in the best possible shape for the Tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got a really nice team with a few of the guys already enjoying top-tens in WorldTour stage races this season. We\u2019ve got a strong squad for the team time trial as well, and I\u2019m really looking forward to it”.<\/p>\n
Healy goes into the race as part of a strong team line-up, which has a number of options, for both stage wins and a general classification ride.<\/p>\n
Also in the EF Education-EasyPost team are: Alex Baudin, Georg Steinhauser, Michael Leonard, Alastair MacKellar, Sean Quinn, and Max Walker.<\/p>\n
Frenchman Baudin (25) was 6th at La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne (1.UWT), 9th overall at both Itzulia Basque Country (2.UWT) and Paris-Nice (2.UWT). German Steinhauser (24) was 3rd overall at Paris-Nice (2.UWT) and best young rider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Healy has missed a chunk of racing due to a crash injury but now he’s back and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-487237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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