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"I’ll just keep this GC ball rolling" - Neilson Powless on surprising GC tilt at Tour de France
CyclingTuesday, 12 July 2022 at 16:00
Neilson Powless was, after his success of recent years, expected to come to the Tour de France with the goal of reaching for a stage win in the hilly or mountainous stages. After one week of racing, the results are the absolute opposite.
“I’m really happy with how the first week went. I had a really smooth ride, I just seemed to always be at the right place in the right time. I had a lot of fun just moving through the peloton, trying to find the right moves to go in. It was exciting, it’s exciting to be racing at the front. I’m really happy to be there," he told Velonews.
Powless is, at the start of stage ten, sitting in ninth place in the overall classification after surviving the tense first week, and surprisingly joining a breakaway on the cobbled stage into Arenberg which almost earned him a yellow jersey. Ever since he's been resisting, and Powless is keen on testing his limits: "I think I’ll just keep this GC ball rolling.”
“I lost a couple of seconds in the end but I was really happy to be up there with the best guys,” Powless said at the end of the ninth stage into Châtel, the first day in the high mountains where the GC riders remained relatively compact. “The team was super good today, they helped me come back from an early crash. All I had to do was sit in the wheel and let them pull me back, they were pushing super hard to do that.
With Rigoberto Urán out of contention and the American team in need of UCI points, Powless has motivations to stay in the run. Although not a climber, he finished the Tour de Suisse in fourth place showing his capacity to ride at a high-level in the stage-races.
As for the possibility of going for a stage win later in the race, he explains: “If I do need to try to go into a breakaway later in the race, if I lose enough time for that, then hopefully my legs will be a bit more fresh from just having smooth rides every day.
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