Tour of Britain Chat: Dan Mclay

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After a great Tour de France debut, Dan Mclay is back racing his national tour in Great Britain colours

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Tour of Britain Chat: Dan Mclay

After a great Tour de France debut, Dan Mclay is back racing his national tour in Great Britain colours and we got a few minutes with him after he and his team were presented to the crowd on the podium at Glasgow.

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Adam Blythe talking to Matt Barbet. Dan McLay is third from the right

“I don’t get that many chances to race at home so it’s good and I’m really looking forward to the race. The form I think has dragged over well and I have more confidence after the Tour de France. I am quite relaxed as well and anything I do now and to the end of the year is a bonus. It’s a nice way to race.”

Asked how he and Adam will work together, both being fast sprinters, Dan replied “We’ve not discussed it so we’ll see how it goes. I think a lot of the stages are tough so there will be plenty of time to find out if you’re on for one or not. A lot of the stages have a possibility of ending in a sprint with a lot of climbing before but the back end of them is not always so hard.”

“I did a stage race in France before this over four days where the temperatures were 37 degrees so that was a change and then did GP Plouay on Sunday and it was okay. I just came up short of making the front group on the last climb but it was the first time I’ve raced a one day past 200k and it was good to see I still had something left in my legs after 250k.”

Good luck to Dan in the Tour of Britain

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