Five hours after reaching his goal to complete the Dubai Tour, Fabian Cancellara took a flight to Doha (60 minutes) to now be at the start of the Tour of Qatar. It will not be the last stop in his Asia round and also does the Tour of Oman. The Swiss therefore accumulates 16 days of competition from 5 until 23 February.

Setbacks in his winter, sick at Christmas, and in January following an accident that forced him to slow workouts, have led him to make the decision to accumulate miles. "I had spoken to Luce (Guercilena, manager of Trek) not to make more than two rides. Finally, we thought that rides was the best medicine," he told L' Equipe. In Qatar, Devolder, Irizar, Popovych, Rast, Roulston, and Stuyven and Sergent, who will form the core of his spring classics team, will join him.

A pain in the left elbow as a result of an accident while training near his home in the first week of January, a vehicle invaded his lane, did not stop him from training in Mallorca but at different speeds. " My physical condition is not better or worse, but different. In recent years, I never got sick. So I have to adapt to training, physical or mental. But that does not mean that others take advantage of me. Failure to train hundred percent has a mental impact," he says.

Cancellara will not be the only rider to link Dubai (5-8 February) Qatar (9-14), Mancebo, and Astana’s Guardini, Guarnieri, Huffman and Iglinskiy also doubled up. And the Trek leader will also be in Oman (18-23).

Last year, the Swiss won the classics GP E3, Tour of Flanders and Paris -Roubaix. His schedule is as follows: Strade Bianche, Tirreno -Adriatico, GP Nobili, Milan -San Remo, GP E3 Harelbeke, Ghent -Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris -Roubaix and Amstel Gold Race, rest and prepare before the Tour de France and then the Tour of Spain to build for the World Championships in Ponferrada, Spain.