With top 10 overall finishes at the Tour of the Alps in the last two years, Hugh Carthy will once again take to the start line as leader of EF Education-EasyPost and looking to prepare for the upcoming Giro d'Italia.
“I'm here for the finishing touches, for the things you can only achieve in the race," the 28-year-old Brit revealed pre-race. "You can't get that specific intensity during your workouts at home. The same goes for the feeling of riding in the peloton. You have to come to such a course for that.”
Carthy, who finished the 2020 Vuelta a Espana on the podium has yet to taste the same level of success at the Giro d'Italia, finishing in eighth and ninth at the last two editions of the premiere Italian stage race. Carthy hopes a positive Tour of the Alps will go some way to changing that fact in 2023.
“We are here first of all to get a good result, and also to prepare for the Giro,” Carthy continues. “The last few weeks I have done nothing more than train hard at home in Andorra. I have not done an altitude training. I trained hard at home and luckily stayed healthy.”
Kieran WoodDeputy Editor-in-Chief
Kieran Wood is a sports journalist based in Wales and has been active in journalism since 2022. He regularly contributes to DartsNews.com and CyclingUpToDate.com, where he covers professional cycling and darts. In cycling, his work includes liveblogs from major races, including the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, and La Vuelta a España, alongside race reports and analysis. He has also conducted interviews with professional riders.
His reporting spans the full racing calendar, from one-day classics to stage races, with a focus on accurate, real-time coverage and clear contextual analysis. For statistics, results, and historical context, he regularly uses resources such as ProCyclingStats. To support reporting on rider activity and training context where relevant, he also references Strava.
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