Tour of the Alps winner Michael Storer not afraid of peaking too early ahead of Giro d'Italia GC assault
Australian looked to be in the form of his life 🦄in Italy and Austria, with five weeks still to go befor🍨e the conclusion of the Giro

When a rider performs as well as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling) did at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of the Alps, it would be easy to imagine they were at their peak, and perhaps hitting top form a little early ahead o💮f the Giro d'Italia, but 🍰the Australian has brushed off any concerns about peaking too early.
Storer went on big solo moves on three of the five stages – 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:one to win a stage, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:one to try and defꩵend his leader's jersey, and one last 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:one to reclaim the lౠead and win the race – and looks to be as str🐟ong as we've ever seen him.
For many riders, peaꦺks in form last up to a f𒐪ew weeks for a specific block of racing, but not usually five or six.
However, any suggestion that it might be a problem to be peaking now, with the tough final week of the Giro four weeks ago, was batted�♍� away by Storer when he spoke to the press on Friday evening.
"I think for sure that I’m at my peak, but I 💝don’t think that I’ve peaked too early," he 🧔said.
"My coach knows me really well, and he’s made a plan going towards the Giro. I don’t think it’ll be a problem, but you never k☂now. I think I’ll be okay."
Storer came into the Tour of the Alps🍬 feeling good and confident of repeating somet✃hing similar to his performance at Paris-Nice earlier this year, but admitted that he did have to work harder for the win, after Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) nabbed the race lead on stage 4 with a solo victory, though that also played into his abilities.
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"I knew that I was coming here in really good form, but I think that it’s also dow♊n to how the race panned out and the nature of the course," he explained. "It ended up being much harder than in previous years, and that open꧋ed up bigger time gaps.
"I have to admit that I w💖ould have preferred if we could have had a less complicated race, considering that I had to attack every day to be able to achieve this success."
He ꦕwas also pressed on whether having to work so hard with two long, solo moves in the last two days may have taken more out of him than he'd liked, or require more recovery than planned, but again the Australian wasn't fazed.
"I'll definitely need some re✨covery after this race. I've been building up really well, so I think I should be okay heading🍸 into the Giro," he said.
Even with 168澳洲5最新开奖ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ结果:Tudor's wildcard only📖 confirmed last month, Storer had already been building his season around the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia and an attempಌt at improving on his 10th place from 2024. Victory in such impressive fashion at the Tour of the Alps will put him on some more radars and tip him for a good rider in May, but the added expectation won't alter his well-laid plans.
"This doesn't change my approach at all, but I’m happy with the compliment that people thi🦄nk that I can do a top five at the Giro," he said. "That would be really cool, but it won't change anything I'll do in the next three weeks or at the Giro."
The only difference is p🔴erhaps some added self-belief, though the assured 28-year-old didn't need much to confirm what he already knew about his form.
"It’s definitely a confidence boost," he said. "I knew that I was good coming into this race, but being able to get a result is that little bit extra. ღIt’s not just being good in training, but also being good in racing, that’s definitely good for the confidence.
"I hope to be able to bring this conditioꦡn to the Giro too,"▨ he concluded.
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Matilda is an NCTJ-qualified journalist based in the UK who joined Cyclingnews in March 2025. Prior to that, she worked as the Racing News Editor at GCN, and extensively as a freelancer contributing to Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly, Velo, Rouleur, Escape Collective, Red Bull and more. She has reported from many of the biggest events on the calendar, including the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France Femmes, Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. She has particular experience and expertise in women's cycling, and women's sport in general. She is 🎉a graduate of modern languages and sports journꦛalism.
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