When Eddie Dunbar is asked if there was one thing he’d like to have from new Jayco-AIUIa teammate Ben O’Connor‘s skillset and use for himself, he doesn’t take too long to answer.
“I noticed in the 2024 Vuelta he’s very good at positioning himself on the climbs,” Dunbar tells Cyclingnews.
He won his first Grand Tour stages. And not just any old stages either. His first was in a fraught, Classics-style second-week race across the hills of Galicia, storming away in the final 600 metres from a reduced pack and keeping them at distance all the way to the line. The second was the toughest mountain stage of the entire Vuelta, with a solo late blast for glory at the Picón Blanco summit, on a day with over 5,000 metres of vertical climbing.
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