Eddie Dunbar comes back to racing at Tour de Pologne: "I think a lot will be decided in the TT this year"

Eddie Dunbar has been off the radar for two months now. Since his breakthrough performance at Giro d'Italia which saw him in contention for final top 5 for more than two weeks, the Irish rider took a bit of rest before the second part of the season, which he'll kick off with Tour de Pologne.

"My training has been good, I’ve been in Andorra for three weeks at altitude, so I’m looking forward to seeing how that affects me over the next few weeks and in Poland," Dunbar says in team's press release. "It’s not something I’ve done in the past, but I think it’s something that could be valuable in the next races and the next part of the year."

"I’m going into the race with an open mind, I obviously haven’t raced since the Giro and I’m coming in off a big training block, so I’m just going in and we’ll see how it is and how the race is."

And how does the Irishman see his own chances? "It’s not the most difficult Tour de Pologne this year I think, there’s four sprint stages, two GC stages and a TT, so I think a lot of it will come down to bonus seconds and the time trial. But I’m hoping that the hard days will be hard, and they can make a difference, but I think a lot will be decided in the TT this year."