Current Tour de France champion, Vincenzo Nibali, confirmed that he will enter the 2015 season with extremely aggressive mindset, targeting not one – like last year – but at least two races. The Astana captain hopes to reach his peak disposition for Ardennes classics and take another try on winning the Liege-Bastogne-Liege before getting ready for his title defense in July.

Unsurprisingly, Nibali confirmed that three-week long races remain his career's main objectives, but claiming a victory in Liege-Bastogne-Liege has almost become an obsession after he narrowly missed out two years ago to his former team-mate, disgraced Maxim Iglinskyi.

“Above all I want to win the Giro again and I’d love to win another Tour de France too, and, eventually, a classic. I’ve dreamt about it for a long time. If I had the choice, it would be Liège-Bastogne-Liège, a very attractive race, especially because of the Côte de Saint-Nicolas, the Italian climb," Nibali told Beligum's Sport Magazine, according to Cyclingnews. 

"I’ve always been in form for Liège and my results have only progressed. Two years ago, I came within a hair of the win and since then it’s almost become an obsession."

The current Tour de France and Italian national champion refused to connect his defeat to Iglinskyi with more recent findings about violating the anti-doping rules by the Kazakh classics specialist.

“I don’t want to think about that again, I want to look ahead,” Nibali said. “Ignlisnkiy is suspended now but that concerns current events, it’s nothing to do with two years ago. For me, it’s clear that he deserved the victory that day.”

Despite having his biggest rivals crashing out of the race during first ten days of competition, Nibali presented a splendid disposition not only in the mountains, but shone brightly on the cobbles in the last edition of the French Grand Tour. Revealing his programme for 2015, the Astana captain excluded participating in Flemish classics, but didn't rule out taking up on such challenge in the future encouraged by his promising showing this year.

"Next season I will only do the Ardennes Classics - Amstel, Flèche Wallonne and Liège - and Milano-Sanremo. No Roubaix, but who knows in the future. I also like the Tour of Flanders.”

"A cobbled stage in the Tour is very different from Paris-Roubaix," he said. "In the Tour, it was a stage of 150 kilometres. At Paris-Roubaix, it’s all on the day, there are more specialists, so it’s more difficult. And there are more cobbled sections. A race like that requires a specific preparation."