Lutsenko: I believe I can win the world championships
Arctic Race of Norway winner says that Y💟orkshire course suits him




Astana's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alexey Lutsenko issued a statement of intent ahead of next month's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire with a dramatic final-day victory at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Arctic Race of Norway on Sunday. The Kazakh champion toppled Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic) 🙈in a nail-b꧙iting battle on the finishing circuit in Narvik that came down to bonus seconds.
Lutsenko had built his victory by 𝐆making a 33-rider split on the freneticꦰ rolling opening stage on the Lofoten islands and then limiting his losses to Barguil on the short-but-steep Storheia summit finish on Saturday, before snatching it at the very last.
The Norway parcours, Lutsenko noted, bears a lot of similarities to the terrain on which he'll be racing at the Worlds in Yorkshi✅re in a bid for the rainbow jerse🍬y on September 29. As such, his ambitions are high.
"I think Yorkshire will be a really good Worlds for me," Lutsenko told reporters in Narvik after raising the trophy. "It will be a similar parcours to here – up and down all the time.
"I'm going to do the maximum I can to go there and try to win. I'm preparing𒆙 1ꦛ00 per cent, and this was a good first step."
Lutsenko has had a fine season so far. Th🎃ere was no stage win at the Tour de France but the Norway victory is his eighth of the year, following three stages and the overall at the Tour of Oman, a stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, and the road race-time🎃 trial double at the Kazakh national championships.
At 26, he is growing in stature and confidence. When it comes to one-day racing, he has finished third at Dwars door Vlaanderen, fourth at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and seventh at Strade Bianche in rec♛♑ent years.
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Asked if he believed he could become world champion ne🐓xt month, he simply said: "For🌱 sure. For sure."
Lutsenko will not go to Yorkshire to recon the course before Worlds week, nor will he race th꧑e Tour of Britain. Instead, he'll keep his foot on the gas, following a July spent at the Tour de France, with a two-week altitude camp planned to hone his condition.
"Tomorrow I'll go home and rest for one week, 𒀰then I'll be back racing. I'll do the Deutschland Tour [August 29-September 1], before going to al🔜titude for a two-week training camp for the world championships," he said.
"Be🍷fore going to Yorkshire I'll do a couple of꧟ one-day Classics in Italy, at which point hopefully the legs will be in top condition."
Patrick is a freelance sports writer and editor. He’s an NCTJ-accredited journalist with a bache🍸lor’s degree in modern languages (French and Spanish). Patrick worked full-time at Cyclingnews for eight years between 2015 and 2023, latterly as Deputy Editor.