Four Devo Team riders will join three members of our World Tour squad for this week’s race.
The fourth edition of O Gran Camiño – the five-day event created in 2022 – will see Soudal Quick-Step line up at the start there for the first time. Our team, which has racked up seven victories so far since the beginning of the season will be present in Galicia with James Knox, Mauri Vansevenant and Jordi Warlop. The trio will be joined by Soudal Quick-Step Devo Team riders Thomas Pesenti, Federico Savino, Gauthier Servranckx and Viktor Soenens.
The race gets underway on Wednesday from Portugal, with what should be the fast men’s only opportunity to score a victory this week, and continues with a hilly stage in Pontevedra, which will be to the liking of the puncheurs. Another reordering of the general classification is set to take place at the end of the undulating 15.5km individual time trial, scheduled just before the hardest stage of the race, one featuring four classified climbs. On the last day – on the way to Santiago de Compostela – numerous hills, six gravel roads sectors and a hard uphill ramp to the line all come with the promise of another exciting battle between the yellow jersey contenders.
“Gran Camiño will be a demanding race, but we have a strong and motivated team for it. Mauri is capable of fighting for a stage win and also a good general classification, but also some of the other riders can bring good results. Regarding the Devo team guys, it will be a nice and important opportunity for them to race with the World Tour team and to learn and discover how things go in a big race. We look forward to what we hope will be a solid week of the team, one in which we’ll once again give our best”, said Soudal Quick-Step sports director Kevin Hulsmans.
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