"There are 5000 meters of accumulated vertical drop, I will try to enter, but I can't swear anything" - Oier Lazkano motivated to succeed in Tour de Suisse's mountains

Oier Lazkano is being one of the great revelations of the season in Movistar Team. The cyclist from Vitoria comes from winning the Boucles de la Mayenne and in the Tour de Suisse admits to be in very good shape. He proved it in the fourth stage and was ahead until the end and now confirms those good feelings.

"In the end I came from a good race in France, I went to high altitude, to Sierra Nevada and I felt good and yesterday I wanted to test myself a little and, indeed, things are going well, so I'm happy".

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About trying it in the Queen stage, he admits that he's going to try, but that it won't be easy. He believes that the stage is very hard, with a lot of elevation gain and that much of it will depend on whether or not a team wants to control the race so that the breakaway can finish:

"It's a nice day, but there are 5000 meters of accumulated elevation gain, I'll try to get in, but I can't swear anything. I hope they leave something for the breakaway, yesterday it took a lot to make the breakaway and after a minute they started to pull very fast, they left only 2 minutes. I think they should leave the breakaway, there is not such a strong team to control everything, we will be there trying to get in."

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So, we'll see what Oier Lazkano, who is being one of the most successful Spanish riders in 2023 with the overall and a stage of the Mayenne and with a second place at Dwars door Vlaanderen that made him position himself as a future great classics rider, will end up doing.

Today in the queen stage of the Tour of Switzerland, as he said before the start, he will try to get into the breakaway and fight for the win in a finish that looks set to be very hard. Everything will depend on what the teams in the general classification allow.

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