Finn Fisher-Black is one of several antipodean riders getting their season started at the Tour Down Under this week, and after finishing third overall last year and thriving in the early season, the Kiwi would probably take a carbon copy of his races up until March in 2026 if you offered it to him.
Having left UAE Team Emirates-XRG to another of cycling’s big-money projects, Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe, the then 23-year-old was in search of new opportunities after not quite reaching his full potential among the Emirati team’s conveyor belt of superstars as he’d hoped.
With the arrival of Remco Evenepoel to the German team, Fisher-Black has his sights set on trying to make it into Red Bull’s Tour de France team, but he knows it’s going to take much more than he showed last season – and that starts with another on Tuesday’s first stage in Adelaide, and carrying on consistently all the way to July.
After that, he’ll take aim at Milan-San Remo as a new challenge, inspired by the way his former teammate Tadej Pogačar has changed the way that Monument is ridden, with Itzulia Basque Country and racing the Ardennes alongside Evenepoel to follow.
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