Sitting in the hotel lobby of an anonymous, if comfortable, motel right on the side of one of Flanders’ major highways, watching the traffic thrum past and the rain drum down incessantly outside on a miserable Friday afternoon, is not exactly the recommended formula for boosting spirits for a small team of dark horse contenders to initiate their cobbled Classics debut.
But to judge from the upbeat answers, laced with good humour, provided by the riders in new US ProTeam Modern Adventure when asked about their prospects as a wildcard team for Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday, that’s actually not going to be a problem.
Actually battling to win Roubaix right now is surely way too big an ask and in the era of Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) that’s a fairly common issue. Rather Modern Adventure will be hoping to put on as good a show as they can, from Kuurne onwards.
The great leap forward
Fortunately, the team are bursting with enthusiasm to do exactly that. “It is pretty incredible considering where I was two years or even just a year ago to make a jump to races like this,” Sean Christian, the…
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