Mikel Landa to ride Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in 2022

Mikel Landa has started off his season at the Vuelta a Andalucia where he has been working on the service of his teammates and he has revealed what his plans are for the upcoming season.

“I hope to stay healthy and give the maximum this year. I’ve been up there in the grand tours before, so why not again? If the condition is there and the luck as well, I’d like to stand on another grand tour podium again," Landa said.

“At first, we’ll really focus on the Giro and start well. There’s no problem combining the both of them. So once the Giro is over, there’s time to recover, and then we’ll take on the Tour," the Spanish climber said in an interview with VeloNews this week. Confirming the rumours that he would be targeting a double this year, as both routes are highly mountainous and provide a lot of opportunities for Landa to succeed.

He will start the final stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia today with the race lead on his teammate Wout Poels' shoulders. The Dutchman went on the attack yesterday with Alexey Lutsenko in the final kilometers of what was a brutal day on the bike and has reached the race lead. Although he has been on the attack, Landa has intentionally dropped out of GC contention and has put in a lot of work for the team. He justifies, “it’s costing me a bit to get things going here at this race, I wanted to come into the season a little bit easier than most seasons, but we are little by little regaining the rhythm of racing.”

He concluded: “We start the season with the objectives of the Giro and Tour, so we’ll build slowly toward those goals, and then we’ll see how it goes."