Despite his fantastic start to his first professional season, Adam Yates is not letting the pressure other put on him get to his head.
“There’s never any pressure,” the 21-year-old told Cycling Weekly. “I just want to do well for myself because it’s always good to get a result.”
The Orica-Greenedge rider has excelled so far and managed to win an uphill finish in the Tour of Turkey as well as the overall. The young Brit is putting his success down to all the hard miles he put in this winter.
“I put the work in this winter, and when you’re training that hard, if you don’t expect a little something or results then you’d be a little low in morale,” Yates explained. “The hard work’s shown. I hope it can continue but as I said, there’s no pressure from the team.”
Yates is currently riding in the Criterium du Dauphine in France, where he has outlined his objectives for the Tour de France build up race.
“On paper, the last stage [to Courchevel] suits me the most because it’s pretty short. The climb’s not super steep so it’ll be harder for the big guys to drop me,” added Yates.
“I haven’t done the Courchevel climb before but I did a couple of them in this area in the Tour de L’Avenir last year. For example, we go through Châtel, where Simon won a stage last year.”
Despite his success, Yates believes what he is done is not particularly remarkable and points to Warren Barguil as another neo-pro who excelled last year:
“It’s not unheard of for a neo-pro to do so well, you saw last year with Warren Barguil,” said Yates. “He won two stages of the Vuelta a España. If you have the legs and you really want it then you can always try to do something.”
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