After becoming a regular record breaker in 2015, after becoming the first African rider to win a jersey in a WorldTour race at the Dauphine and then the first African to wear the KOM jersey at the Tour, Daniel Teklehaimanot wants another record, the first black rider to win a Grand Tour stage, to be his in 2016.
“I was really happy this year with my performance, and I’d like to be able to do something again next year. I hope that I can do more. I can’t say if it will be as good as this year, but I would like to be stronger,” Teklehaimanot told Cyclingnews at the team’s training camp last month. “I would like to do well in the middle of the season, I need to be strong everywhere, but I would like to win a stage of the Tour or the Vuelta.”
With Dimension Data heading into their first season as a WolrdTour team in 2016, Teklehaimanot’s two seasons with Orica-GreenEDGE should allow the Eritrean to help his team and also to help himself cope with the sport’s biggest races.
“In the past, I was in a WorldTour team, and it was a really busy programme. Now I would like to think that I can survive in the WorldTour races and maybe win some big races,” said Teklehaimanot.
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