Jacques Janse van Rensburg targeting Tour of Oman podium
MTN-Qhubeka rider ꦗhoping to show off South African champion jersey


The in-form 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jacques Janse van Rensburg (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MTN-Qhubeka) is looking to continue his current run success at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Oman. After storming to the South African national road race title - followed by third ꧒at the African Championships - earlier this month, Janse Van Rensburg believes that he can take tꦺhe challenge to the big guns in the overall classification.
“I think a podium is possible. It’s going to be hard for us but I think it is possible if everything goes well,” he told Cyclingnews ahead of the third stage in Al Mussanah. “Louis is looking really good so for the white ꦉjersey I think that he has a really good chance. We are definitely goi꧃ng for a podium and the white jersey.
“Myself and Lo﷽uis had a really good race yesterday. We were going with the really strong guys, Valverde and🍬 Majka, so we’re really confident for tomorrow and we can make a really good result for the team.”
Janse van Rensburg has had the Tour of Oman marked in his calendar for some time as a serious season goal. He and Meintjes are currently sitting on the same time, 10 seconds behind the race leader Fabian Cancellara. The pair finis🦩hed in the front group of 18 riders that rode off the front in the final 20 kilometres. It has been a strong performance all around from MTN-Qhubeka, with Johan van Zyl putting in an impressive effort in the break on day one and Janse van Rensburg is keen to keep it going. “I am really looking forward to tomorrow,” he said.
“I’ve been looking forward to the race since last year when we got the invitation to the race. I always watch the race on t🔴he television in South Africa🧸 and it is a race that I thought would suit me well and there is perfect weather.”
Onwards and upwards
After suffering with illness in 2013, last season saw Janse van Rens⛎burg make a big breakthrough. He kicked it off with sixth overall at the Tour de Langkawi before winning the overall classification at South African Mzansi Tour, ahead of Meintjes. The year was capped off when he made his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a Eཧspaña and went on to gain selection for the World Championships.
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The Tour of Oman is the first chance that Janse Van Rensburg has had to show off his new national champion’s jersey since he beat Daryl I💜mpey (O♔rica-GreenEdge) by more than two minutes in Mbombela. The win is undoubtedly the biggest of his career thus far and he hopes that it will spur him on to bigger things in the season to come.
“It’s been really nicꦜe to be the national champion and it’s given me some motivation for the rest of the season to do the jersey proud,” he said.
The first half of the season will consist of plenty of travelling for Janse van Rensburg. After Oman, he will return to L𒁃angkawi at the beginning of March before heading to France for the start of his European campaign with the Circuit de la Sarthe and Paris-Camembert. Then he will m꧒ake a short hop over the Atlantic for the Tour of California before returning to France for the Criterium du Dauphiné in June.
With MTN-Qhubeka set to become the first African-🃏registered team at the Tour de France later this year, Janse van Rensburg hopes that it may give him an extra edge. “Definitely my dream since I’ve started cycling is to take part in the Tour de France and this year I’ve got a really big chance to do it and hopefully the jersey helps my chances of getting into the tea🎃m,&rdq💜uo; said Janse van Rensburg.
“The team is definitely going to send the strongest nine riders to the race and it doesn’t put me into the squad automatically. Anything can happen from now ඣuntil then. I just have to keep racing hard and focussing on getting some good results in my races up unt💟il the Tour de France and then hopefully I’ll get selected.”
Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no🅷 surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December ♛2013.